"The Savory Collection" - Performances by Jazz Greats

Since I don't get the New York Times or watch television news...  I depend on Journalists like Doug Ramsey and his news journal on the Arts,  Rifftide.  Lots of good stuff that you aren't going to find on the evening news there. He has been following "the Savory Collection", and the copyright issues that will probably slow down the public release of  the large collection of recordings made from radio broadcast in the late 30's by audio engineer William Savory.  I  include links here to the original New York Times article on  August 16th, 2010, their follow-up article on August 17th.   The National Jazz Museum in Harlem which has acquired the collection, and with others are in the process of restoring & digitizing the music.  In the meantime they have allowed us a taste of the music we can look forward to hearing in the years ahead.  If you don't have the time to wait, or you just want to listen ASAP maybe you should look into the copyright issue & debate regarding these one of a kind recordings.  I am sure a few people out there have ways to get  things moving with the powers that be.  Whatever way it goes... likely someone is already positioning themselves for a payday.

Treat this newly found treasure as  something that was freely given up by the actual persons involved in its origins.  Years ago as it went out over the airwaves  no one alive saw its future return to the World. 

  Sure, license  the right to compile the recordings for commercial sale and distribution.  Once the National Jazz Museum deducts the cost of acquiring, restoring, re-mastering & preserving the collection.  Grant a special copyright with no end for this Special Collection. Any profits /royalties could first go to making sure any musician or composer identified on the records has a memorial marker on their grave & these places of rest are properly cared for... so that future generations might remember the individuals.  Then establish a Trust that would receive any royalties along with other private donations for future preservation of Music History.   

This was a unseen gift from History, its beneficiary should be History.  Just a thought...

UPDATE:  A CBS News Story Video