legality of home recording

[Margaret Fleck]

This may well be an artifact of how existing corpora are recorded, since
audio sources frequently tend to be on in natural home environments.
Also, I'm not sure it's legal to distribute recordings of copyrighted songs
even if the performer is an amateur, since there are also performance
rights involved.


Margaret M. Fleck

    University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

    margaretmfleck at yahoo.com

--- On Thu, 8/21/08, Brian MacWhinney <macw at cmu.edu> wrote:
From: Brian MacWhinney <macw at cmu.edu>
Subject: Re: legality of home recording
To: info-childes at googlegroups.com
Date: Thursday, August 21, 2008, 9:23 AM

Folks,     I don't think this ruling will have any impact on any of the materials in either CHILDES or TalkBank. I have listened to perhaps a thousand hours of these materials and the only instance of clear use of music in the CHILDES and TalkBank materials is in the segment of the Dresden SLA corpus that studies how music can support  language learning.  Moreover, in these materials, it is the school-aged  children themselves who are the performers, since they are singing the songs.  By the way, they are really great!
-- Brian MacWhinney
On Aug 21, 2008, at 7:38 AM, Margaret Fleck wrote:

The following legal case
   http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10021999-93.html?hhTest=1
is worth following, because it directly addresses the question of the legality
of distributing recordings with incidental background audio/video, something
that could easily occur in language recordings done in homes or other
natural settings.  Or even foreground audio material, if you are recordings
subjects who are at all musical.

Cheers,

Margaret (Margaret Fleck, U. Illinois)



 
 







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