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The "Advertising Record", recorded by Len Spencer circa 1906.

The recording begins, "I am the Edison phonograph...", and explains the novel benefits of the phonograph from the first person perspective of the machine. A very early landmark of advertising in modern media, this was played widely in shops to entice customers.

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[edit] Licensing

As the assets of Edison Records have been transferred to the National Park Service, this sound recording is now considered to be in the public domain. This may only be claimed for files based on the raw (wav) recordings, the restored MP3 versions from the University of California Santa Barbara Library are available only under an unacceptable non-commercial license.