copyright question

[thatguyjerry]

Didn't really know where to post this one, so I'm just gonna go with off-topic.

 

I want to use a speech by Neil De Grasse Tyson for my film final; obviously I cant use the audio from the actual speech, but I could get one of the radio hosts at my school who has a nice speaking voice to record the speech in his own narration. I would attribute the speech to Neil, but would I be crossing any copyright laws by using the speech in this manner?

[Samfisher]

Didn't really know where to post this one, so I'm just gonna go with off-topic.

 

I want to use a speech by Neil De Grasse Tyson for my film final; obviously I cant use the audio from the actual speech, but I could get one of the radio hosts at my school who has a nice speaking voice to record the speech in his own narration. I would attribute the speech to Neil, but would I be crossing any copyright laws by using the speech in this manner?

You could tweet him.  I hear he's pretty responsive to questions on Twitter,

[thatguyjerry]

You could tweet him.  I hear he's pretty responsive to questions on Twitter,

I'll give that a try, thanks for the info.

[Dzzope]

In the UK (Not sure about US) it's ok to use stuff for school projects as long as you reference the source.. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_law_of_the_United_Kingdom#Fair_dealing_and_other_exceptions

 

wikipedia should have all the info you need on copyright laws for your area.. Quick look and found that the US holds to fair use:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_use

[.spider.]

Contact

http://www.haydenplanetarium.org/tyson/contact

[Bsmith]

in EU you can use stuff for educational reasons aslong you add the original source to it if im not mistaken

[thatguyjerry]

Seems like the interview from Time would actually fall under the Fair Use policy, if I'm not mistaken. This would mean I could use the original audio instead as well?