Thanks for the feedback, everyone. I will hold fire on posting full transcripts since the situation is uncertain, though the summary of "Anglo-Canadian" law shared by Tom suggests that the person who fixes the interview in a given medium owns the copyright in that medium, so that would imply I own the copyright in the transcript.
Suffice to say that Rod Ward gave a really excellent interview to BBC World Service about academic contributions to Wikpedia, and there will be a link to the audio, and perhaps some paraphrasing, in the newsletter. On Sun, 3 Apr 2011, Thomas Dalton wrote: > On 3 April 2011 12:58, David Gerard <[email protected]> wrote: >> On 3 April 2011 12:54, Thomas Dalton <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Short extracts from the transcript might qualify as fair dealing (aka >>> fair use). Publishing the whole thing would almost certainly be a >>> copyright violation. >> >> >> I tend to assume the speaker owns their words. >> >> But this whole thread is surmise. Is there *case law*? > > I've found this discussion of Canadian law on the subject, written by > a lawyer specialising in the subject: > > http://www.entertainmentmedialawsignal.com/2011/02/articles/copyright/question-and-answer-who-owns-the-copyright-in-an-interview/ > > English and Welsh law isn't identical to Canadian law, by any means, > but it does have a lot in common with it. > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia UK mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l > WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org > -- 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
