On 4/29/98, Jayne Sebby <jsebby[_at_]unlinfo.unl.edu> wrote:
>
> On the contrary, this is the basis of a great deal of copyrighted
> material. Television, Radio, and Newspapers all depend on "fixing" the
> comments and actions of others. And it is not uncommon for an "author"
> to seek out the media to "fix" his or her work and "distribute" it to
> the public.
Of course, but that was not my point. Let's assume you have Ann Author who speaks an unwritten speech into a microphone while Tommy Technician records the speech onto a reel-to-reel tape recorder. Would you give *initial* copyright ownership of the speech to Ann or to Tommy?
As a postscript much (most?) of the time when works are fixed by the media, they were already fixed in some form by the author beforehand, in which case the issue of authorship and copyright ownership doesn't arise, at least not from the vantage point of fixation.
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.2.0 : Mon Mar 26 2007 - 00:35:29 GMT