On 3/13/99, Charles Kramer <tilyou1[_at_]aol.com> wrote:
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> But if an extemporenous speech today was recorded clandestinely by
> someone in the audience, would not the speech be protected by copyright?
> The speaker owning the copyright, and the recorder merely owning the
> medium in which it was recorded?
One of the requirements of copyright is fixation, and one of the requirements of fixation is that it be done "under the authority of the author." 17 U.S.C. sec. 101. The clandestine recording would lack that authority.
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