Re: broadcast speech

From: <Tristan_Forrester[_at_]fhp.com.au>
Date: Wed, 29 Apr 1998 09:48:48 +1000

On 27 April 1998, Bob Stock <bstock[_at_]ucla.edu> wrote:
>
> (dealing with US law only)
>
> It would be a silly world that gave copyright ownership to the person
> who physically recorded the creative work rather than the actual author
> of that work.

Isn't this the whole basis of 'mechanical' copyrights in broadcasts and sound recordings? Or is this different in the US?

Tristan Forrester.
<tristan_forrester[_at_]fhp.com.au>

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