legality of home recording

[marilyn vihman]

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.

-marilyn vihman

On 23 Aug 2008, at 02:23, Margaret Fleck wrote:

>
> 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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