Short extracts from the transcript might qualify as fair dealing (aka fair use). Publishing the whole thing would almost certainly be a copyright violation.
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! > > -- > Dr Martin L Poulter ICT Manager, The Economics Network > Based at the ILRT, University of Bristol: http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/ > > The full experience: http://infobomb.org/ > Wikipedia contributor: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:MartinPoulter > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia UK mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l > WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org > _______________________________________________ Wikimedia UK mailing list [email protected] http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
