Re: broadcast speech

From: Michael Seadle <seadle[_at_]MAINLIB3.LIB.MSU.EDU>
Date: Wed, 29 Apr 1998 11:45:24 -0400

As may be clear from my recent posts, I am struggling to understand the intellectual property rights involved in sound (and only sound) - both broadcast sound and non-broadcast taped interviews. Many thanks to all who have answered so far. Here are a few more questions inspired by Tristan Forrester's query about "the whole basis of 'mechanical' copyrights in broadcasts and sound recordings?"

Is a network broadcast of a person speaking (not reading or repeating a printed text) different than common speech on the street to which the network has no IP rights, or does the network have IP rights because it (probably) recorded the speech and is (probably) playing back that recording? I'm assuming the network has added nothing original.

In that same scenario, does the speaker have full IP rights, or only "moral" rights because s/he had nothing to do with fixing the words?

Is the situation similar for the subject in a (non-broadcast) taped oral history interview?

Many thanks... Michael

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