On 11/01/07, Matthew Somerville <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Brian Butterworth wrote:
> Does the Copyrights Designs and Patents Act 1988 cover the subtitles
> associated with a TV channel? Would implementing a "search" feed, rather
> than a complete feed be OK with the Act?
I would guess (IANAL) subtitles are part of the work, so would be
copyrighted for things like dramas (as it's basically the spoken section of
the script, more if it includes noises), and you might have fair use for
news broadcasts and the like. Google seems to think storing everything for
search is okay, so you might be okay there...
I'd guess we could implement a search feed without infringing
copyright. But in my experience they don't work too well, since you
really need to see the context in which a word was used to judge its
relevence - and showing the context in text would infringe.
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