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46 Report (r904), 78.
47 Report (1904), 48. For the precedent in Russell's proposal, see above, 274-75-
48 L. Harding, "You've Heard of the Flights, but Would You Buy a No-Frills CD?" Guardian, July 5, 2004.
49 Report (1904), 35-36, 45-46, 64, 70,74-75-
5o Report (1904),79-8o.
51 Report (1904), 31.
52 Report (1904), separately paginated reports, 11-19.
53 Lamb, Leslie Stuart, 167; L. Kriegel, "Culture and the Copy: Calico, Capitalism, and Design Copyright in Early Victorian Britain," Journal of British Studies 43 (2004): 233-65.
54 Report (1904), 23-24.
55 Report (1904),70-
56 Report (r9o4), 52.
I 57 Report (1904), 40, 52, 68-69.
58 Report (r9o4), 66.
59 Report (1904), 26, 47, 64.
6o Coover, Music Publishing 116.
61 Coover, Music Publishing 114, 118; Musical Times, August 1, 1904, 534-35.
62 Report (r9o4), 59-60. In point of fact reference had been made to pirates' conspiracies in the music publishing trade since the 189os (Coover, Music Publishing 68), but I believe that Poland's remarks were independent of those previous claims.
63 Report (1904), separately paginated reports, 6.
64 Coover, Music Publishing 125-27-
65 Copyright Act, 1911,1 and 2 Geo.V, c. 46. The history of early gramophone recordings and piano rolls in this context is fascinating but too complex to address here; for the American story, see L. Gitelman, ,Scripts, Grooves, and Writing Machines: Representing Technology in the Edison Era (Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1999), 97-147.
66 V. Guest, So You Want to Be in Pictures (London: Reynolds and Hearn, 2001), 26-27, 73.
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I A. Briggs, The History of Broadcasting in the United Kingdom, 5 vols. (London: Oxford University Press, 1995 [orig. 1961-95]), r.T8; Experimental Wireless Radio Call Book (London: Percivall Marshall and Co., n.d. [1924}); Hansard, The Parliamentary Debates, House of Commons (London: HMSO), 5th ser., TSo, p. 638 (February 13, 1922).
2 Briggs, History, r:95-6.
3 BBC Written Archives Centre, Caversham (henceforth BBC WAC), CO 58/1.
4 Royal Mail Archives, Mount Pleasant, London (henceforth RMA), POST 33/703, March 31, 1922.
5 Hansard, Commons, 151, pp. 1077-79 (March 7, 1922); 153, pp. 16oo-i6oi (May 4, 1922); Briggs, History, 1:66-7-
6 Briggs, History, r:85.
7 RMA, POST 33/703, April 21,1922, May To, 1922.
8 RMA, POST33/703, May 10, 1922.
9 BBC WAC, CO 2; Hansard, Commons, 153, pp. 16oo-i6oi (May 4,1922); Sir Frederick Sykes (chair), The Broadcasting Committee Report (Cmd. ToST) (London: HMSO, 1923), 7; Briggs, History, 1:107-14.
10 BBC WAC, CO i/i.
11 RMA, POST 33/703, June 16, 1922. Note that I refer to both the British Broadcasting Company and the later British Broadcasting Corporation as "the BBC," in accord with contemporary usage; theywere, however, distinct entities.
12 BBC WAC COT/1.
13 F.J. Brown evidence, Sykes committee, RMA, POST 89/18, I, unpaginated.
14 Sykes, Report, 8-9; RMA, POST 33/703, June 28,1922; Earl of Crawford (chair), Report of the Broadcasting Committee (Cmd. 2599) (London: HMSO, 1926), 19. In fact some six to eight thousand U.S. crystal sets reached the UK before the embargo began. They were admitted provided they furnished a royalty, met technical standards, and were given a special mark: BBC WAC, CO 1/2, p. 13.
15 Briggs, History, io9.
16 RMA, POST 33/703.
17 Sykes, Report, 22.
18 Sykes minutes, evidence by Noble and McKinstry, May 8-io, 1923, RMA, POST 89/18, I, §§254-61, 504-28; Hansard, Commons, i5o, p. 638 (February 13,1922); 153, PP. 16oo-i6oi (May 4,1922);156, p. 184 (July 4, 1922); Briggs, History, 1:128-9.
i9 Hansard, Commons, 157, pp. 50 (July 24, 1922), 463 (July 26,1922).
20 Hansard, Commons, 157, pp. 1951-64 (August 4,1922).
21 Hansard, Commons, 153, pp. 16oo-1602 (May 4,1922); RMA, POST 33/704; BBC WAC, CO 2; BBC WAC, CO 58/1.
22 BBC WAC, CO i/i.
23 Daily Mail, April 9,1923.
24 Noble, in Sykes evidence, RMA, POST 89/18, I, §251 (May 8,1923)-
25 BBC WAC, CO 1/2, October 9, 1922.
26 RMA, POST 33/704, September 28, 1922, October 2, 1922.
27 RMA, POST 33/703,June