ARE THESE RECORDINGS INFRINGING ON COPYRIGHTS? ALL of the recordings we use for our transfers are in the Public Domain - which means that the public is free by law to openly use and distribute them - and have all been thoroughly researched by Government Liaison Services, Inc. ( http://www.trademarkinfo.com/ ). There are two criteria that these recordings must meet in order for us to offer them as HDTT releases: 1) the compositions must have been published before 1924 (this is why most of our transfers are from the Classical genre), and 2) the recording must have been made prior to 1972. Before 1972 the original masters were eligible for protection, but the commercial releases were not, in addition, many copyrighted works published between 1923 and 1964 would have had to have their copyrights renewed at the end of their normal 28-year terms; however, if the copyright owners failed to renew these copyrights, the works by law automatically revert to the public domain. By some estimates, as many as 95% of all copyright owners for works during this period did not renew their copyrights for one reason or another, and so these recordings are now also in the public domain. For more information, please visit the US Copyright Website at www.copyright.gov

PLEASE NOTE:In the interest of preserving the superb sound quality of these historic recordings, they have been preserved in their original, pristine state for maximum fidelity. Transferred from commercially released, analog reel-to-reel tapes (some of which are more than 50 years old), the recordings themselves can be subject to certain "artifacts" which are an inseparable part of the original analog recording process, such as tape "hiss" or other defects, and these may be audible on certain music tracks.