Though the recent meltwater news v newspaper licensing agency case suggests that even that (tom dalton's interpretation) may come under question if meltwater's appeal fails.
If I understand it correctly the decision says that not even headlines only constitutes 'fair use'.
Meltwater sends new clips from the day to clients electronically, encouraging them to click on the original news story websites.
This is a scary departure from what we all (me included) would believe to be true fair use.
I'd like to think tom is correct but now I don't know he is. I hope I am wrong and he is.
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-----Original Message----- From: Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com Sender: wikimediauk-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org Date: Sun, 3 Apr 2011 12:54:14 To: wikimediauk-l@lists.wikimedia.org Reply-To: wikimediauk-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Transcripts of interviews
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 M.L.Poulter@bristol.ac.uk 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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