Martin, I would expect the transcripts to be copyright. The case I would
offer is - imagine if it was the other way round with Stephen Fry reading
from JK Rowling on the radio. Fair use obviously for an abstract, but the
spoken book is worth a fortune and would be IMO copyright.


Roger

On 3 April 2011 10:54, Martin Poulter <[email protected]> wrote:

> What's the legal position on sharing broadcast transcripts? I've
> recorded a couple of recent Wikimedia-related radio interviews and
> transcribed them to avoid sharing the audio. I was thinking of sharing
> transcripts through this list and perhaps a press archive on the
> Wikimedia UK site. My instinct is that the content of the conversation,
> unlike the audio itself, is non-copyrightable, but online I've seen some
> descriptions of transcripts as derivative works. I'm rather keen not to
> get the chapter in trouble!
>
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