quincy
Senior Member
If you recorded the interview yourself, you already hold the copyrights in the recorded interview. By "copyrighting this recording," therefore, I assume you mean that you plan to register your copyright in the recording with the US Copyright Office. Registration can provide you with additional copyright protection should your copyrighted work be infringed, but registration is not necessary. Copyrights are automatic, once an original and creative work is expressed in tangible form.What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)? Indiana
Hello!
I am the owner of ffp.com
I was given written permission in 2005 - to record an audio interview for my web site with EHLD, who lives in CA. The link is at -
http://www.XXX.com/
She has been in contact with me recently - is is threatening me to sue me for having the interview on my site - after several years later. I have already gone ahead a while back and I'm in the process of copyrighting this recording and a few others from some other people I conducted. can you give me some legal advice? She is also trying shut down my entire web site...which I don't believe she can do. To mean it's like CNN or another newscast site if someone gives an interview - they can't stop it from be posted or promoted right?
Because I have written permission she doesn't have any power does she, since she gave permission...and in the end of the recording I mention i have the first interview with her online - and she mentioned that "I got it". I am just trying to stand my ground and protect what is mine. Should I even take her to small claims court? I just don't think she has any say.. when she gave permission and it was going to be online.
Thanks and I hope you can contact me back soon. I am very concerned.
You would be smart to have the original written agreement with EHLD personally reviewed by an attorney in your area, to see exactly what sort of rights were granted to you by EHLD.
Although you hold the copyrights to the recording, you might not have obtained a proper release of publicity/privacy rights - which could mean that you have a recording that you cannot use without additional authorization from the person you interviewed. And, even if certain rights were granted by EHLD to be interviewed and recorded by you in 2005, you cannot use EHLD's persona to promote your website, or for use in any commercial manner, without additional permission from EHLD to do so.
As you have probably noticed from the editing of your post to remove all personal identifying information, the members of this forum cannot do personal reviews. We can provide legal information and general advice only. For the personal review of the specifics, you will need to see an attorney in Indiana. Here is a link to the Indiana Bar Association, for help in finding an attorney local to you: http://www.inbar.org/
Good luck.
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