Re: Oral History (Was: Re: broadcast speech)

On 4/27/98, Michael Seadle <seadle[_at_]mainlib3.lib.msu.edu> wrote:
>
> Tyler Ochoa <tochoa[_at_]law.whittier.edu> recently wrote:
> >
> > Speeches do not fall within the federal Copyright Act unless and
> > until they are "fixed," i.e., written down or recorded in some
> > permanent form.
>
> I'm wondering whether this means that oral history interviews (ones
> where the subject has merely spoken into a tape recorder) would be
> copyright free? Or is taping thought to be a sufficient act of
> "fixing" the material, even though it is not "writing it down?"

Taping would be considered "fixed in a tangible form".

Wendy Nemeroff
<wendy_nemeroff[_at_]geoworks.com> Received on Tue Apr 28 1998 - 23:05:02 GMT