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- 0:08The CDC reduced earlier this
- 0:10month the number of usually
- 0:11recommended vaccines for children.
- 0:13Now that change has flummoxed some
- 0:15parents and pediatricians in the
- 0:16area. We're going to hear some of
- 0:18the questions that they have been
- 0:19asking.
- 0:20And it's been more than six months
- 0:21since deadly flooding killed more
- 0:23than 130 people across the Austin
- 0:25area and the Texas Hill country.
- 0:27And recovery is still a long ways
- 0:29down the road.
- 0:30An update from some of folks still
- 0:32working through that process that's
- 0:34coming up in today's show.
- 0:36The Austin Signal is a production
- 0:38of KUT News, hosted by
- 0:40Jerry Quijano.
- 0:41Plus, the ATX Free Fridge project
- 0:43has been filling in the gaps of food
- 0:45access across the Austin area for
- 0:46more than half a decade, but the
- 0:48project itself could use a little
- 0:50love and help these days.
- 0:51That story and a whole lot more
- 0:54coming your way, that is on today's
- 0:56Austin Signal.
- 1:08Howdy out there, this is
- 1:10Austin Signal.
- 1:11Thank you for making us part of your
- 1:13day. It is Wednesday, January 13th.
- 1:16I'm your host, Jerry Quijano.
- 1:18Let's get into today's
- 1:19show.
- 1:21Changes in the Centers for Disease
- 1:23Control and Prevention's new vaccine
- 1:24recommendations are causing
- 1:25questions among some parents and
- 1:27raising eyebrows among
- 1:28pediatricians.
- 1:29So what is going on and how are
- 1:31folks around here feeling about it?
- 1:33Well, to answer some of those
- 1:34questions, we are talking with KUT's
- 1:36healthcare reporter.
- 1:37Olivia Aldridge.
- 1:38Olivia, thanks for joining us.
- 1:39Hi, I'm glad to be here.
- 1:40So for folks who might not
- 1:42be familiar with the change, what
- 1:44specifically did the CDC alter
- 1:46here?
- 1:46Yeah, the CDC announced a pretty big
- 1:48overhaul of its recommended vaccine
- 1:50schedule.
- 1:52So previously, that schedule
- 1:54basically included 17 vaccines
- 1:56plus an antibody treatment for RSV
- 1:58recommended for all kids at
- 2:01various ages in their life.
- 2:02Now there are only 11 vaccines
- 2:04recommended for kids.
- 2:05And those other six
- 2:07were kind of moved into different
- 2:09categories.
- 2:11So, now they're recommended either
- 2:13for kids at especially high risk
- 2:15of severe disease or for patients
- 2:17who have gone through what's called
- 2:19a shared clinical decision-making
- 2:21process with their doctor.
- 2:23So, essentially, that's just parents
- 2:24chatting with the kid's pediatrician
- 2:26and deciding whether to give them
- 2:28that vaccine.
- 2:30The shots affected here that
- 2:32are moved into those other
- 2:33categories are that RSV
- 2:35treatment And I mentioned hepatitis
- 2:37A and B, meningitis.
- 2:39COVID-19, the flu shot,
- 2:41and then rotavirus, which is a
- 2:42common infection that causes
- 2:44vomiting and diarrhea.
- 2:46And I want to add that this
- 2:48isn't a requirement.
- 2:50It's actually states that make
- 2:51requirements about shots that kids
- 2:53need for school.
- 2:55But many of these state laws
- 2:56reference the CDC guidelines.
- 2:58And those guidelines are also just
- 3:00an important resource for public
- 3:01health departments, health care
- 3:03professionals, and then the general
- 3:05public.
- 3:05Okay, well, our listeners are
- 3:06certainly going to be concerned
- 3:08about how Texans and Austinites
- 3:10could be affected.
- 3:11What has been the general reaction
- 3:13to this recommended change among
- 3:15pediatricians that you've spoken
- 3:16with?
- 3:17There has been some confusion, I'd
- 3:19say, around like, why these
- 3:21vaccines?
- 3:22Because it's not the case that there
- 3:24was some new study that shed doubt
- 3:26on any of these specific shots.
- 3:28The science is the same.
- 3:30So one pediatrician that I spoke
- 3:32to is now sticking to the vaccine
- 3:34schedule endorsed by the American
- 3:36Academy of Pediatrics, which
- 3:38aligns with that previous CDC
- 3:39schedule with the 17 shots.
- 3:41That's common.
- 3:43It's also true in some cases at the
- 3:45organizational level.
- 3:46So like Austin regional clinic
- 3:48pediatrics Texas children's
- 3:50are basing recommendations on that
- 3:51American Academy of Pediatrics
- 3:53guidance
- 3:54Okay, so now let's talk about the
- 3:56parental side of it.
- 3:57How have parents been reacting to
- 3:59this news?
- 4:00Yeah.
- 4:01Um, I think there's a lot of
- 4:03confusion.
- 4:04So, you know, one
- 4:06pediatrician that I talked to, um,
- 4:09said that she immediately started to
- 4:11get questions from parents that were
- 4:12like, what is this all about?
- 4:14Um, just generally a lot confusion
- 4:16about what information can
- 4:17I trust that's not totally
- 4:19new. So this pediatrician,
- 4:21Dr. Marjan Linel, um.
- 4:23Even before this, she was getting a
- 4:25lot more questions, running into a
- 4:27lot More skepticism, you.
- 4:28Remember, the country's top health
- 4:30official, Robert F.
- 4:31Kennedy Jr.
- 4:32Is a pretty prominent anti-vaccine
- 4:34activist, and there's a lot of
- 4:35misinformation floating around on
- 4:37social media.
- 4:40So in Texas, parents do have some
- 4:41choice.
- 4:42So the state has vaccine
- 4:43requirements for kids entering
- 4:44school, but it's possible to seek an
- 4:46exemption. So she really tries to
- 4:48meet parents' concerns with
- 4:50care and give
- 4:52them the best information she can so
- 4:53that they can make an informed
- 4:55choice. She often sends folks.
- 4:58To some online resources from the
- 5:00Children's Hospital of Pennsylvania,
- 5:02which have some really detailed
- 5:03information about what's safe.
- 5:05OK, lastly, along those lines,
- 5:07we have about 30 seconds left.
- 5:08I know right now sickness is on
- 5:10a lot of people's minds, flu, what
- 5:12have you. What is the flu vaccine
- 5:14recommendation?
- 5:15And is that affected in any of this
- 5:17that's going on?
- 5:18It is affected for
- 5:20for kids. The CDC isn't officially
- 5:22recommending it for all kids anymore
- 5:24But right now during this very
- 5:26active flu season a lot of public
- 5:28health leaders are urging people
- 5:29young and old to get it It
- 5:31can help prevent those really
- 5:32serious flu cases that can put
- 5:34people in the hospital
- 5:35All right, we have been speaking
- 5:36with KUT's healthcare reporter,
- 5:39Olivia Aldridge.
- 5:39You can find more of her reporting
- 5:41on this story and others at
- 5:43KUT.org, and we're
- 5:45going to have it in our show notes
- 5:46for today's show.
- 5:47Olivia, thanks for coming on the
- 5:48show.
- 5:55This is Austin Signal.
- 5:57Thank you for being with us.
- 5:59It's been six months since
- 6:00catastrophic flooding tore through
- 6:02the Texas Hill Country, killing more
- 6:04than 130 people.
- 6:06As the Texas newsroom's Lucio
- 6:08Vasquez reports, recovery is
- 6:10still far from complete.
- 6:13It was just after midnight on July
- 6:154th, Joe Herrera said the
- 6:17rain sounded normal at first.
- 6:19Then it didn't stop.
- 6:21Herrera, who has Parkinson's
- 6:23disease, lives with his wife near
- 6:24the Guadalupe River in Kerr County,
- 6:26Texas.
- 6:27As the rain intensified, the river
- 6:29began to rise.
- 6:30The water was all the way into the
- 6:32garage, pretty deep already,
- 6:35within minutes.
- 6:35As it kept rising, a neighbor came
- 6:37to check on them, tied a rope around
- 6:39Herrera and helped pull him to
- 6:41safety. They survived, but their
- 6:43home was badly damaged.
- 6:44Their car was destroyed.
- 6:46Still, Herrera says he's happy to be
- 6:48alive. He says he was back in his
- 6:50home two months later.
- 6:52Hundreds of other people weren't so
- 6:53lucky.
- 6:54Every day, I pray to God, thank you
- 6:56for what I have.
- 6:56In a matter of hours, the river rose
- 6:58up to 37 feet.
- 7:00The region is expected to lose up to
- 7:02$22 billion in damage
- 7:04and economic losses.
- 7:06Recovery is far from complete,
- 7:07but daily life has largely resumed.
- 7:11Shops are open, restaurants are
- 7:13busy, traffic moves steadily
- 7:15along bridges that were once
- 7:16underwater.
- 7:17The Guadalupe River is quiet now.
- 7:20But walk closer to the river and
- 7:22the gaps appear.
- 7:23Empty lots where homes once
- 7:25stood. Fresh dirt where foundations
- 7:26were washed away.
- 7:28The beauty and the calmness
- 7:30of that river.
- 7:31And to see the damage that it's done
- 7:33is really hard for people to
- 7:35understand. And that's gonna take
- 7:36years to get over.
- 7:37Louis Amastoy is a resident and
- 7:39journalist who's been covering the
- 7:41flood for the Kerr County lead, a
- 7:42local online news source.
- 7:44He says the landscape tells only
- 7:46part of the story.
- 7:47These are people that have lived
- 7:48here their entire lives, you know,
- 7:50this is a pretty close-knit
- 7:51community.
- 7:52The flood was one of the deadliest
- 7:53natural disasters in Texas history.
- 7:56At least two people, including an
- 7:58eight-year-old girl, remain missing.
- 8:00And as the water receded, questions
- 8:02followed about whether people along
- 8:04the river were adequately warned and
- 8:06whether the risk was fully
- 8:07understood before the storm.
- 8:09There's a lot of questions to
- 8:10be answered.
- 8:11One of those questions centers on
- 8:13the accuracy of flood maps produced
- 8:15by the Federal Emergency Management
- 8:17Agency, an agency that has also
- 8:19faced criticism for its response to
- 8:21the disaster.
- 8:22Former acting FEMA Administrator
- 8:23David Richardson was accused by
- 8:25some state and federal lawmakers
- 8:27of failing to show urgency as
- 8:29the crisis unfolded.
- 8:30He later defended the agency's
- 8:32response during a congressional
- 8:34hearing.
- 8:34Texas got what they needed when
- 8:36they needed it.
- 8:37Richardson resigned in November.
- 8:40Also, some residents said emergency
- 8:42alerts on their phones were
- 8:43inconsistent or never arrived at
- 8:45all. During a public hearing about
- 8:47a month after the flood, the Kerr
- 8:49County officials responsible for
- 8:50sending those alerts said they were
- 8:52either asleep or out of town as
- 8:54floodwaters began to rise.
- 8:56But for some families, the last six
- 8:58months have been about
- 8:59accountability.
- 9:00Four separate lawsuits are now
- 9:02moving through the courts, all
- 9:03connected to Camp Mystic.
- 9:05An all-girl summer camp where 25
- 9:07campers and two counselors were
- 9:09killed.
- 9:10The summer camp recently announced
- 9:11plans to reopen later this year.
- 9:13Kyle Finley represents families who
- 9:15were suing Camp Mystic.
- 9:17Have a child still missing.
- 9:19And instead of focus being on that,
- 9:21we're talking about trying to
- 9:24open camp to gain additional
- 9:25revenue.
- 9:26Attorney Michael Watts says
- 9:28investments made by Texas lawmakers
- 9:30after the flood should prevent
- 9:32another tragedy from unfolding.
- 9:34There will never be a flood death in
- 9:37this river again because we'll
- 9:39have a warning system that we need.
- 9:41The state legislature approved
- 9:42nearly $300 million for
- 9:45upgrades to flood warning equipment,
- 9:47including new sirens along the
- 9:48Guadalupe River.
- 9:50Amistoy, who's been covering the
- 9:51disaster in the same community he
- 9:53calls home, says recovery is
- 9:55far from over.
- 9:56We still have missing people.
- 9:57And I think that's our community's
- 10:00responsibilities to ensure that
- 10:02they're not forgotten.
- 10:03Amistoy says uncertainty still
- 10:05hangs over the Hill Country,
- 10:07for survivors still rebuilding and
- 10:09families seeking answers.
- 10:12That was the Texas newsroom's
- 10:14Lucio Vasquez.
- 10:16You can find more from him
- 10:18and the entire newsroom over
- 10:20at KUT.org.
- 10:23Thank you for spending part of your
- 10:25Tuesday afternoon here with
- 10:27us on Austin Signal.
- 10:28Coming up, the ATX Free Fridge
- 10:30project has been in operation for
- 10:32six years, but they could use some
- 10:34help to keep the project moving
- 10:36forward. We've got that.
- 10:38And the new year means new
- 10:40items available in the public
- 10:42domain. Come here.
- 10:44What's available?
- 10:45What can you mash up?
- 10:46That's coming up next right here
- 10:48on Austin Signal.
- 11:01This is Austin Signal.
- 11:03For more than half a decade, the ATX
- 11:05Free Fridge Project has been helping
- 11:07to fill the gaps in food access
- 11:08across the Austin area.
- 11:10People in need can visit one of five
- 11:13outdoor fridges to pick up free
- 11:14food, no questions asked.
- 11:17But as KUT's Katy McAfee
- 11:19reports, the project has recently
- 11:21hit a bit of a rough patch.
- 11:25Within 10 sunny minutes on Tuesday
- 11:27afternoon, seven people stopped by
- 11:29a refrigerator on South 1st Street
- 11:31and Ditmar Road to pick up free
- 11:33food. The fridge is covered by
- 11:34a wooden pergola with built-in
- 11:36shelves for dry food and clothing
- 11:38donations.
- 11:39There's also a bulletin board for
- 11:40folks to leave notes or sponsor
- 11:42community events.
- 11:43This is one of five fridges run by
- 11:45the ATX Free Fridge Project,
- 11:47which started during the pandemic to
- 11:49combat rising food insecurity rates.
- 11:51And it works sort of like a little
- 11:53library for food.
- 11:54Take what you need, leave what you
- 11:56can. No paperwork,
- 11:58no questions.
- 11:59The project has taken off since the
- 12:01pandemic.
- 12:02A few years ago, volunteers put door
- 12:03sensors on the fridges and found
- 12:05they were opened, on average,
- 12:07300 times a day.
- 12:09Lannie Lee has been going to the
- 12:11Dittmar Fridge for years.
- 12:12He says this resource has been
- 12:14lifesaving, especially late last
- 12:16year, when a government shutdown
- 12:17delayed federal food benefits.
- 12:19I remember not having any
- 12:21food, not knowing what was going to
- 12:23happen, not knowing how I was going
- 12:24eat, and this place
- 12:26has taken care of a lot
- 12:28of people.
- 12:30But though these fridges are well
- 12:31frequented, not all of them are
- 12:34well cared for.
- 12:35Next to the cans of crushed tomatoes
- 12:37and vegetable soup at the Ditmar
- 12:38location is a pile of dirty,
- 12:40wrinkled laundry.
- 12:42Trash is strewn about the area.
- 12:45Lee says lately he doesn't want to
- 12:46open the fridge without gloves on.
- 12:48Everybody's touching everything in
- 12:50there. There's germs and there
- 12:52are some people that come and clean
- 12:53and help out. Lots of us do.
- 12:55We pick up the trash, but it's
- 12:57a never ending process
- 12:59to clean up and sanitize it.
- 13:01Stephanie Castleberry, one of the
- 13:03five volunteers heading the ATX Free
- 13:05Fridge Project, says the Dittmar
- 13:06fridge will close by the end of the
- 13:08month because keeping it clean has
- 13:09been impossible.
- 13:11A fridge on Second Street closed
- 13:12late last year for similar reasons.
- 13:15Try like we put out the calls to
- 13:16action we set up text chains to
- 13:18like tell people hey this is going
- 13:20on can you go clean it but it's just
- 13:21not enough you know we need everyone
- 13:23who's going to the fridges to just
- 13:25take that step take care of it
- 13:26because the second street was a huge
- 13:28loss Dipmar is going to be a huge
- 13:29loss for that neighborhood.
- 13:31There's a spreadsheet on the ATX
- 13:32Free Fridge website where community
- 13:34members can sign up to clean their
- 13:35local fridge, but almost all
- 13:37the spots are unfilled.
- 13:38You know, we're just five volunteers
- 13:41who like, we have day jobs,
- 13:43you know, we do this in our free
- 13:44time and like, um, we do our best
- 13:47to try to like, make sure the
- 13:48fridges are operational and
- 13:49everything like that.
- 13:50But like the people who are going
- 13:52to the fridge is regularly,
- 13:54we really need support from those
- 13:56full.
- 13:57Castleberry says, from the start,
- 13:59the Free Fridge Project has been
- 14:00rooted in, quote, anarchy.
- 14:02It's a way for community members to
- 14:04help each other out when
- 14:05conventional welfare systems fail.
- 14:07A key component of the project is
- 14:09anonymity.
- 14:10On one hand, that might make it
- 14:12easier for someone to get food when
- 14:13they need it.
- 14:14But less face-to-face interaction
- 14:16also makes it tough to ensure people
- 14:18are on same page about caring for
- 14:19the fridges.
- 14:20That's why we're trying to do more
- 14:21community meetings.
- 14:23And we started a Discord so
- 14:24that we can try to like connect with
- 14:26more people, get people talking
- 14:28to one another.
- 14:29And you know, hey, that's
- 14:31not how you're supposed to donate
- 14:33food. Like let's do this.
- 14:35Castleberry is hopeful the fridge
- 14:37project will make it through this
- 14:38rough patch.
- 14:39Volunteers have early plans to set
- 14:41up three more fridges in Montopolis,
- 14:43Franklin Park, and North Austin
- 14:44neighborhoods this year.
- 14:46And they aren't giving up on the
- 14:48Dittmar community.
- 14:49They're looking for a new place to
- 14:50put a fridge nearby and give the
- 14:52South Austin neighborhood a fresh
- 14:53start. I'm Katy McAfee in
- 14:55Austin.
- 15:01Technology has made it easier than
- 15:03ever for anyone out there to
- 15:05reimagine a piece of music,
- 15:07a book, even a movie.
- 15:09And many artists battle to protect
- 15:11their copyrighted work from the
- 15:13algorithmic meat grinder
- 15:15in the parlance of our time.
- 15:17But as the new year begins, more
- 15:19creative works are now fair game for
- 15:21anyone, human or machine, to
- 15:23chop up, mash up, or glow up
- 15:25as they wish.
- 15:26Texas Standard's Shelly
- 15:28Brisbin takes a look.
- 15:29At what's newly free from copyright.
- 15:38Like clockwork, each January 1st,
- 15:40media historians, academics, and
- 15:42creators eager to remix works of
- 15:44art from the past celebrate Public
- 15:47Domain Day.
- 15:48On the first day of 2026,
- 15:50works of artwork from 1930 along
- 15:52with sound recordings from 1925
- 15:54lost copyright protection.
- 15:56Yes sir, that's my baby.
- 15:58No sir, don't mean maybe.
- 16:00Yes sir that's ma baby now.
- 16:04That means that anyone is free to
- 16:05adapt these works, from novels,
- 16:07comics, musical compositions, and
- 16:09films, in any way they like.
- 16:12For me, this public domain day
- 16:14marks a dividing line in time.
- 16:171930 is the year of my mother's
- 16:18birth, so the way I imagine
- 16:20the modern world has always begun
- 16:22there, now 95 years
- 16:25ago.
- 16:25From my mother, I learned to love
- 16:27film.
- 16:28Sitting on the floor, watching old
- 16:30movies she'd grown up with.
- 16:31I became a passionate student of
- 16:33film history, and I found that 1930
- 16:36marks a bright line between early
- 16:38clumsy examples of sound filmmaking
- 16:40and the era when Hollywood studios
- 16:42and directors began making sound
- 16:44masterpieces at all-talking
- 16:46epics.
- 16:47Give me a whisky, ginger
- 16:49in on the side,
- 16:52and I'll be stingy, baby.
- 16:54Greta Garbo first spoke on film in
- 16:571930.
- 16:58The movie was Anna Christie, made
- 16:59by MGM and frequent Garbo
- 17:01director Clarence Brown.
- 17:03Garbo Talks was the tagline.
- 17:06And now creators are free to drop
- 17:07her throaty Swedish accented voice
- 17:09into their own creations.
- 17:12Also in 1930, John Wayne
- 17:14donned his first spurs and cowboy
- 17:16hat and the big trail.
- 17:17Hello, Coleman.
- 17:19Howdy, Walmart.
- 17:20Changed my mind.
- 17:22I'll scout for that bull train after
- 17:23all.
- 17:24Well, that's a rare sunshine.
- 17:26Take hands before you change your
- 17:28mind again.
- 17:29Got a good wagon boss for the trip?
- 17:31And the Marx brothers first cracked
- 17:32wise on film in Animal Crackers.
- 17:35Louis' Milestones All Quiet on the
- 17:37Western Front was a new kind of
- 17:39war film in 1930 that
- 17:41centered the experiences of Germans
- 17:42who fought in World War I.
- 17:44It's still regarded as among the
- 17:46most important anti-war films ever
- 17:48made.
- 17:48And I, too, look to you,
- 17:51Paul Balmer.
- 17:52I wonder what you are going to
- 17:54do.
- 17:56I want to go!
- 17:57Me too!
- 17:59I don't see that.
- 18:01The Kaiser's got everything he
- 18:02needs.
- 18:03Well, he never had a war before.
- 18:05Every full-grown emperor needs one
- 18:07war to make them famous.
- 18:08I'll tell you how it should be.
- 18:10In a kind of copyright twofer,
- 18:12a film called Cimarron and the book
- 18:14it was based on are now both
- 18:16in the public domain.
- 18:18The movie won the 1931 Best
- 18:19Picture Oscar, and the books is
- 18:21by Edna Ferber, who would go on
- 18:23to write the Texas epic, Giant.
- 18:26It was called the Oklahoma Land
- 18:28Rush.
- 18:29We're going off to a brand new
- 18:31two-fisted rip-storm country.
- 18:32Full of Indians, random snakes, gun
- 18:34porters, and death parados!
- 18:36Whoopee!
- 18:38And a pioneer family helps turn
- 18:40a wild frontier into a proud
- 18:42state. Did you have to kill him like
- 18:44that? You know, I could have let
- 18:46him kill me.
- 18:47Richard Dix and Irene Dunn
- 18:49star in the only Western to ever
- 18:51win Best Picture.
- 18:52Timuron.
- 18:56William Faulkner's As I Lay Dying
- 18:58enters the public domain, and
- 19:001930 was a great year for detective
- 19:02stories like Dashiell Hemmett's The
- 19:04Maltese Falcon and the first
- 19:05four Nancy Drew novels by Carolyn
- 19:08Keene.
- 19:08For kids, there's A Little Engine
- 19:10That Could, an illustrated edition
- 19:12by Wadi Piper that has been popular
- 19:14for generations.
- 19:16And 1930 marked the first appearance
- 19:18of the characters Dick and Jane
- 19:20in Elson's Basic Reader.
- 19:23Cartoons and animated characters
- 19:24always attract remixers and
- 19:26adapters, as happened when the first
- 19:28Mickey Mouse cartoons became free
- 19:30to use a few years ago.
- 19:32This year, there are nine new Mickey
- 19:33cartoons up for grabs, but
- 19:35the big news is Betty Boop,
- 19:37the bubbly, high-voiced girlie who's
- 19:39already been reimagined across the
- 19:41decades in advertising and fashion.
- 19:43But now, the real thing, the
- 19:45original from Fleischer Studios,
- 19:47a more audacious version of Betty,
- 19:50is free for all.
- 19:55But when I'm
- 19:57having my lobsters,
- 20:00I have to have
- 20:01poop-poop-ba-doop-be-da-da.
- 20:03Oh, oh, oh!
- 20:05If you're a copyright lawyer, the
- 20:06subject of music and public domain
- 20:08day might just keep you in small
- 20:10talk at any cocktail parties you
- 20:12happen to attend.
- 20:13But for the rest of us, music
- 20:15copyright can get complicated.
- 20:17Music published in 1930,
- 20:19the notes and lyrics, is now
- 20:21free to use.
- 20:22George and Ira Gershwin's I Got
- 20:24Rhythm and Embraceable You are
- 20:25included, as is Hoagy Carmichael's
- 20:28Georgia On My Mind.
- 20:29But the famous Ray Charles version
- 20:31of Georgia recorded much later,
- 20:33and Ethel Merman's I Got Rhythm.
- 20:35Recorded in 1930, by the way,
- 20:37are not.
- 20:38Copyright law has a special
- 20:39carve-out for sound recordings,
- 20:41giving them 100 years of protection
- 20:43instead of the 95 for music
- 20:45compositions and other works.
- 20:48This year, that means St. Louis
- 20:49Blues, recorded in 1925
- 20:51by Bessie Smith and featuring Louis
- 20:53Armstrong, enters the public domain,
- 20:56along with civil rights pioneer
- 20:57Marian Anderson's haunting version
- 20:59of Nobody Knows the Trouble I've
- 21:02Seen.
- 21:30O'er
- 21:32the land of
- 21:35the free and the home of the
- 21:40There's also Gene Austen's Yes Sir
- 21:42That's My Baby and Fascinate in
- 21:44Rhythm by Paul Whiteman and his
- 21:45orchestra.
- 21:47Whiteman, by the way, is the subject
- 21:49of 1930s King of Jazz,
- 21:51an inventive and sometimes surreal
- 21:53film that also enters the public
- 21:55domain this year.
- 21:57And if you're wondering, those
- 21:58Whiteman songs within King of jazz
- 22:00are copyright-free now because the
- 22:02law says sound recordings that are
- 22:03part of a film fall under the same
- 22:05rules that the film itself does.
- 22:07So feel free to work on your best
- 22:09remix of Happy Feet.
- 22:11For the Texas Standard, I'm Shelly
- 22:13Brisbin.
- 22:24And that is it for today's
- 22:26show. Thank you to Olivia
- 22:28Aldridge, Lucio Vasquez,
- 22:29Katy McAfee, and Shelly Brisbin for
- 22:31helping us cross the finish line
- 22:33today. If you're listening on the
- 22:34podcast, you can find more of their
- 22:36reporting in the show notes for
- 22:38todays episode.
- 22:39And as always, you can all of our
- 22:41work over at kut.org
- 22:43slash signal.
- 22:45Kristen Cabrera is the show's
- 22:47managing producer, and Rayna Sevilla
- 22:49is the Signals technical director.
- 22:51I'm Jerry Quijano.
- 22:52We'll be back with you tomorrow at
- 22:54the same time.
- 22:55We will talk to you then.