User talk:Pigsonthewing

Copyright of recorded introductions

Latest comment: 1 month ago2 comments2 people in discussion

Hi Pigsonthewing,

As part of our Wikifying a Conference project, @DrThneed and I were thinking of recommending people record a short voice introduction as part of having their photo taken. I just wanted to check on the copyright status of voice recordings; the person recording is the copyright owner, not the speaker? Is there a threshold of originality that a speaker would need to meet before their words became a copyrighted creative act? When I did oral history training some time ago I remember being told the copyright was owned by the interviewer, as the person capturing the work in a fixed medium, but I wanted to double-check in case there'd been some discussion of this in Commons circles—do point me to it if there has.

Cheers, Giantflightlessbirds (talk) 21:45, 29 January 2026 (UTC)Reply

"the person recording is the copyright owner"

That's my understanding, from work with the BBC; providing the textual content isn't scripted.

I'm not aware of discussion on Commons, but also not aware of any deletions resulting from such usage. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 22:26, 29 January 2026 (UTC)Reply

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