[DaxtonBrown]

[and if they don’t have a release then they are a violator]

I’ve wondered this too. Every time a reporter gets a story, shouldn’t they be technically getting arelease from eveeryone they interview? Has Sharron Angle given the RJ a release for every article they’ve written about her? I’m petrified of Righthaven, not that they will win long term (it would be a cataclysm), but the amount of damage they can do short term.

[muawiyah]

Interviews are copyrighted by the interviewer, not the interviewee unless it's for commercial use and then you need a release from each participant (as I recall from sitting there discussing copyright law for years and years with postal lawyers).

I could be wrong because I haven't kept up on every subtle nuance or minor change, but ya gotstahave "copy" to "copy right" it, and oral discussion isn't, per se, copyrightable.

Used to be the case that you had to mark your "copy" to assert a "copyright" but when we flipped over to the international standards several decades back that was no longer needed.

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