The Rag Committee approaches Cam TV with an idea for a programme to fill an entire day's schedule. The programme is to be called 'Secret Rag', and involves the recording of a number of events during rag week. Advise Cam TV whether they could broadcast the following without infringing any intellectual property rights.
A. A video recording of parts of a law lecture. Thanks to heavy editing and shortening, the lecturer appears to advocate the abolition of examinations, although this is not in fact what he said. The video includes footage of the new law building.
B. A recording of a private rehearsal taking place in King's College Chapel. The works rehearsed include a new anthem written by the organ scholar, to be premiered later in the year. On the tape several people are heard to remark that the opening theme of the anthem bears a strong resemblance to a current chart record. The organ scholar dismisses the allegation furiously, claiming that he never listens to such trash.
C. A video-taped interview with a local gallery owner who is mounting an exhibition of contemporary artistic photographs. The interview features two of the photographs in particular. When describing them the gallery owner mixes up their photographers. To make amends, the Rag Committee has reproduced both photographs, correctly attributed, in the Rag magazine.
Please note that when an Act is not mentioned for a section, this indicates a section of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 is being referred to.
A
There are two works here, and I shall examine them separately. The first is the lecturer's speech, which contains copyright at the point that it becomes fixed via the video recording. The second is the footage of the new law building.
