Yeah, sure, for ‘public goods’, I completely agree. But even though …
I was really talking about the many commercial organisations whose long-term business model may not be as viable as they think, given this problem. If your ONLY business operation (and source of revenue) depends ultimately on those recordings actually existing, it would be wise to secure them for the long term. But while long-termism may be in the interests of the actual shareholder (to be debated with all the quick-buck-this-quarter traders on the stock markets) it somehow remains not in the interests of those at the top of those firms, actually running them.
They don’t need to have a
…motive in order to have a reason to pay attention to this issue. It’s their core fucking business.
So…
…should be a focus.
But short-term late-stage senior executives have more personal interests, mostly, it seems. I guess they just assume someone will find the music, all they need to do is licence it and then whoever just paid them can legitimately copy it from someone else who already paid them.
But without a format, how can sounds be preserved? (Yeah, sheet music. Not really a sound preserving media, though.)
