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transcriber agreement from USBGF
Posted By: Timothy Chow In Response To: transcriber agreement from USBGF (Perry)
Date: Sunday, 3 March 2013, at 9:54 p.m.
If you're claiming that the match transcription is your intellectual property, then anyone else who creates an identical match transcription from the video needs your permission to make copies of it, distribute it, etc. Of course, you also said that you are willing to grant such permission, but nevertheless you are asserting your ownership of the match transcription.
But if the video is in the public domain, then why is the match transcription your intellectual property rather than the intellectual property of someone else who happens to transcribe it?
It sounds like you're trying to say that your copy of the match transcription is your intellectual property whereas someone else's copy is their property. That view of property works for material objects but it's not how intellectual property works. Copyright of texts is all about controlling copies of the same text.
Also, are you sure that the video is really in the public domain? Just because a video has been broadcast to the public doesn't make it in the public domain. News organizations retain copyright over videos that they broadcast. The video is only in the public domain if the owner explicitly declares it to be in the public domain and relinquishes intellectual property rights over it.
My guess is that you meant to say something like, the information conveyed by the video is public information. Yet at the same time, you're trying to assert intellectual property rights over some of that public information, or at least to some particular encapsulation of that information. These are rather subtle distinctions that are potentially controversial.
Again I think you'd be advised either to learn the basics of intellectual property law yourself or consult a lawyer.
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