Unlocked Recordings

is a collection of orphaned works made available under the Music Modernization Act.



Music Modernization Act
published recording may be digitized and distributed by libraries, archives, and museums under the Music Modernization Act, as long as there is no commercial sale of the works and reasonably priced copy of the work is not available.

Souces of records
many of the records in this collection come from the store Recycled Records located at 1377 Haight Street North Beach San Francisco's, as well as the Boston Public Library collection. in May of 2020 the internet archive announced it had acquired Bop Street Records a would incorporate the over 500,000 records into there collections.