The Edison Cylinder Recordings are in the public domain.
The cylinders are preserved, recorded and made available by the University of California, Santa Barbara. Many thanks.

http://cylinders.library.ucsb.edu/

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CYLINDERS
"Abraham" from Arthur Collins, 1905
"Ace of diamonds", National Promenade Band, 1914

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SPECIFIC LINKS

http://cylinders.library.ucsb.edu/search.php?queryType=@attr%201=1016&query=abraham&num=1&start=1&sortBy=&sortOrder=id

http://cylinders.library.ucsb.edu/search.php?queryType=@attr%201=1001&query=wx&num=1&start=23&sortBy=&sortOrder=ia

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COPYRIGHT

See http://cylinders.library.ucsb.edu/copyright.php for copyright information:

"The raw transfers created by the University of California are in the public domain. Users of this website are free to use these raw transfers as they see fit, not limited to redistribution to others, including distribution over peer-to-peer file-sharing networks; reissue, mashups, mixes for commercial or non-commercial purposes; or other uses that could be imagined."

See too: http://cylinders.library.ucsb.edu/help.php

"The wav files are not protected by copyright and can be used for either noncommerical or for-profit use. The restored versions (mp3 files) are licensed for use under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 2.5 License."

The Wav-files were used for this audiobook. Of course this entire Librivox-Recording is as always public domain and may be distributed, copied, used freely.