Martin, I would expect the transcripts to be copyright. The case I would offer is - imagine if it was the other way round with Stephen Fry reading from JK Rowling on the radio. Fair use obviously for an abstract, but the spoken book is worth a fortune and would be IMO copyright.
Roger
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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