Ran across this today. Amazing. I wonder if any of those recordings are still around?

From The Talking Machine World, Vol 13, No 2, page 106, February 15, 1917.

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Taylor Swift buys back the rights to the master recordings of her first six albums
After her former label sold her catalogue in 2019, Swift embarked on her lucrative album rerecording project – but now owns the originals for the first time https://www.theguardian.com/music/2025/may/30/taylor-swift-buys-back-master-recordings-taylors-versions #copyright #soundrecordings #music
Taylor Swift buys back the rights to the master recordings of her first six albums

After her former label sold her catalogue in 2019, Swift embarked on her lucrative album rerecording project – but now owns the originals for the first time

The Guardian
Following Taylor Swift's re-recording project, musicians are reclaiming their work

When pop star Taylor Swift announced in 2019 that she was re-recording her previous works, musician Pete Murray was shown a way forward to reclaim his legacy. 

ABC News
Library of Congress: National Recording Registry Inducts Sounds of Elton John, Chicago, Broadway’s ‘Hamilton,’ Mary J. Blige, Amy Winehouse, Minecraft and Microsoft https://www.infodocket.com/2025/04/09/library-of-congress-national-recording-registry-inducts-sounds-of-elton-john-chicago-broadways-hamilton-mary-j-blige-amy-winehouse-minecraft-and-microsoft/ #music #musicians #audio #soundrecordings
Library of Congress: National Recording Registry Inducts Sounds of Elton John, Chicago, Broadway’s ‘Hamilton,’ Mary J. Blige, Amy Winehouse, Minecraft and Microsoft

From the Library of Congress: Elton John’s monumental album “Goodbye Yellow Brick Road,” Chicago’s debut “Chicago Transit Authority,” the original cast recording of Broadway’s “Hamilton,” Mary J. Blige’s “My Life,” Amy Winehouse’s “Back to Black,” Microsoft’s reboot chime, and the soundtrack to the Minecraft video game phenomenon have been selected as some of the defining […]

Library Journal infoDOCKET
https://blogs.bl.uk/sound-and-vision/2024/11/sound-archive-acquires-new-technology-for-digitising-wax-cylinders.html
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We’re delighted to announce that the sound archive now has the privilege of housing one of only two Endpoint cylinder replay machines in Europe, expanding our capabilities for preserving historical audio recordings in the #UK.
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January 1, 2024 is Public Domain Day: Works from 1928 are open to all, as are sound recordings from 1923!
https://web.law.duke.edu/cspd/publicdomainday/2024/
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Public Domain Day 2024 | Duke University School of Law

Update: see what's entering the public domain on January 1, 2025! Tweet January 1, 2024 is Public Domain Day: Works from 1928 are open to all, as are sound recordings from 1923! By Jennifer Jenkins Director, Duke Center for the Study of the Public Domain CC BY 4.0 Please note that this site is only about US law; the copyright terms in other countries may be different.[1] On January 1, 2024, thousands of copyrighted works from 1928 will enter the US public domain, along with sound recordings from 1923. They will be free for all to copy, share, and build upon.