Howard Shaw writes,
>> ...are you suggesting that there is no need to have any permission
>> from the interviewee? After all, once the interviewee's words are
>> recorded on the interviewer's recorder, doesn't copyright subsist in
>> favor of the author, i.e., the interviewee whose words have been
>> fixed in the recording medium?
IANAL, but speaking as a journalist and author, I have never heard of suits being brought against writers or publishers by interviewees over copyright issues. Legal actions have been, instead, over matters of defamation, privacy, and the like--e.g., allegation that there was misquotation or misleading quotation, or quotation obtained under unlawful or unethical circumstances, or betrayal of confidence, etc.
--DS Received on Fri Aug 29 2003 - 19:30:40 GMT
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