<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">I have to say that I would never think of trying to record a child while the radio or TV is on! But then I'm especially interested in the child's word forms - and noisy toys and/or media playing are anathema in that case.<div><br></div><div>-marilyn vihman</div><div><br></div><div><div><div>On 23 Aug 2008, at 02:23, Margaret Fleck wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"><br>This may well be an artifact of how existing corpora are recorded, since<br>audio sources frequently tend to be on in natural home environments.<br>Also, I'm not sure it's legal to distribute recordings of copyrighted songs<br>even if the performer is an amateur, since there are also performance<br>rights involved.<br><br><br>Margaret M. Fleck<br> University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign<br> <a href="mailto:margaretmfleck@yahoo.com">margaretmfleck@yahoo.com</a><br><br>--- On <b>Thu, 8/21/08, Brian MacWhinney <i><<a href="mailto:macw@cmu.edu">macw@cmu.edu</a>></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;">From: Brian MacWhinney <<a href="mailto:macw@cmu.edu">macw@cmu.edu</a>><br>Subject: Re: legality of home recording<br>To: <a href="mailto:info-childes@googlegroups.com">info-childes@googlegroups.com</a><br>Date: Thursday, August 21, 2008, 9:23 AM<br><br><div id="yiv1029235949">Folks,<div> 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!</div><div><br></div><div>-- Brian MacWhinney</div><div><br><div><div>On Aug 21, 2008, at 7:38 AM, Margaret Fleck wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; -x-system-font: none;" valign="top"><br>The following legal case<br> <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10021999-93.html?hhTest=1">http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10021999-93.html?hhTest=1</a><br>is worth following, because it directly addresses the question of the legality<br>of distributing recordings with incidental background audio/video, something<br>that could easily occur in language recordings done in homes or other<br>natural settings. Or even foreground audio material, if you are recordings<br>subjects who are at all musical.<br><br>Cheers,<br><br>Margaret (Margaret Fleck, U. Illinois)<br><br><br></td></tr></tbody></table><br> <br> <br></blockquote></div><br></div><br> <br> </div></blockquote></td></tr></tbody></table><br> <br> <br></blockquote></div><br></div><br>
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