IASA 2019 Annual Conference

Digital technology has made historic recordings of music heritage held in AV archives increasingly accessible to the world at large. With this increase in accessibility has come an increase in reuse of the recordings for compilations available for purchase and for community interventions that promote use of the recordings that involves sampling and remix into compositions that appeal to contemporary youth. Do such projects promote music heritage sustainability or undermine it? Do source communities of the historic recordings have any rights over the use of their heritage in this way? This paper discusses these and related issues in an effort to determine if there is a need for AV archives to develop standards that establish conditions for accessibility and reuse of their holdings designed to deal with contingencies of 21st century realities and implications of the open access paradigm.