Re: Interview Copyright

From: Dodi Schultz <SCHULTZ[_at_]compuserve.com>
Date: Tue, 02 Sep 2003 11:15:04 -0400


John Noble writes:

>> I would guess that an interview is considered a work of joint
>> authorship, as to which both authors -- interviewer and interviewee
>> -- have the right to reproduce, distribute, make derivates, etc.
>> unless there was an agreement allocating those rights.

I'm sure I answered this once before. The answer is still no. If someone is interviewed for an article, that certainly does *not* give the interviewee the copyright or any part thereof, or the right to reproduce or distribute the article or do anything else with it. Virtually all news reports involve interviews. Can you imagine the hordes of people who would be claiming rights to the material if your supposition were so?

--DS Received on Tue Sep 02 2003 - 19:15:04 GMT

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