[cma-l] copyright on the spoken word

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From: "Robert Kirkwood" <Robert.Kirkwood at insightradio.co.uk>

HI,

I work on a show called Talking Books at Insight Radio so have a bit of
experience with broadcasting the spoken word.

I’m assuming your presenters and participants in the show will be reading
the work themselves and not using clips from audio books or anything
similar. If that’s the case, it’s a lot simpler than music copyright; in
fact it’s akin to just dealing with the lyrics of a song, not the musicians
or performers.

If you’re just reading passages from written works that are less than one or
two minutes I’d term that as ‘fair use’ and as long as the writer and
publisher are credited you should be fine without approaching anyone. If you
want to use anything longer, or perhaps a complete poem from beginning to
end, I’d approach the author themselves via an agent or publisher just to
make sure, but to be honest, I’ve never come across anyone who has refused
me. It’s a great advert for their book after all.

It may be that the work you are reading from has no remaining copyright,
something like Dracula or Frankenstein could be read from beginning to end …
a general rule of thumb is 70 years after the death of the author, although
this could go down to 50 years depending on when they died. The Project
Gutenberg website lists books out of copyright in the US and is a fairly
good guide for the UK situation.

*Cheers,*

*Robert*



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-----Original Message-----
*From:* cma-l-bounces at mailman.commedia.org.uk [mailto:
cma-l-bounces at mailman.commedia.org.uk] *On Behalf Of *Heads Together
*Sent:* 21 October 2009 09:47
*To:* CMA-L
*Subject:* [cma-l] copyright on the spoken word



I know lots about music copyright issues and broadcast - but what about the
written (and then spoken) word.



For example if a group of people were doing a programme about Fear and,
amongst many other things - wanted to do some readings of poetry or sections
of published stories that they have found particularly scary ... what do I
need to do to...





Adrian Sinclair

Director - East Leeds FM

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Leeds LS14 1BT

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Mobile 07973 172 433



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