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 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/questi...
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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