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.
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On Sun, 3 Apr 2011, Thomas Dalton wrote:
> On 3 April 2011 12:58, David Gerard <dgerard@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 3 April 2011 12:54, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton@gmail.com> 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.
>
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