# Darktown poets

An episode of [National Jukebox: ethnic characterizations](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/radio-drama/series/loc-jukebox-ethnic-characterizations), recorded 7 November 1911. Audio: https://tile.loc.gov/streaming-services/iiif/service:mbrsrs:mbrsjukebox:dlc_victor_17020_02_b10936_05:dlc_victor_17020_02_b10936_05/full/full/0/full/default.mp3

From Darktown poets (Library of Congress). The Library of Congress states: “The Library makes the sound recordings in the National Jukebox available pursuant to permission from the rightsholders. Under the Music Modernization Act, many of these recordings will begin entering into the public domain on January 1, 2022, when all recordings published prior to 1923 will enter the public domain and will be free to use and reuse. Recordings published between 1923 and 1946 are then protected for 100 years, and recordings published between 1947 and 1956 are protected for 110 years. In addition, some of the items in the Jukebox, such as the Victrola Book of the Opera, are” Source: https://www.loc.gov/item/jukebox-130790/

Nothing here is called public domain on this site's say-so. In the United States, sound recordings first fixed before 15 February 1972 have federal protection under the Music Modernization Act of 2018, for most until 2067 at the latest, so most American radio of the 1930s to the 1950s is not in the public domain there. Each set shows the licence, mark or statement its archive gives, and says whose it is.