[cma-l] do you copyright programmes, materials etc?

[Chris Paul]

? Use Creative Commons as a start (and possibly finish) point:

http://creativecommons.org/


> We ask all volunteers by default to assign the copyright in any work they
> do
> for the radio station to it, just as they would if they were an employee
> of
> a commercial production company. This seems a reasonable starting position
> for anyone signing up to support the station with their voluntary work,
> but
> there's no automatic reason why it shouldn't be open to negotiation if
> they
> have good reason. Of course the position is different if someone pays to
> use
> the radio station's facilities for an independent production of their
> own..
>
> I imagine also someone could perfectly properly assert their moral rights
> to
> be recognised as the author of scripts etc, without necessarily claiming
> sole rights to the audio produced.
>
> If someone wishes to claim ownership of, for example, a music programme
> they
> have produced, then I would think they might also need to obtain their own
> MCPS/PPL/PRS licenses according to the use they make of commercial music
> in
> the programme and subsequent replay of the programme. Normally the
> station's
> licensing would cover these maters for material produced exclusively for
> it,
> but that can't be assumed if someone else wishes to hold the rights and
> physical copies for their own use.
>
> Not an issue that has arisen for us in practice, thankfully - everyone so
> far has regarded the work they do as volunteers on our station as being to
> produce material that the station will own and use.
>
> Alex
> Two Lochs Radio
>
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