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Neuenschwander, John A. – Journal of College and University Law, 1984
Whether words that are first spoken to an interviewer but end up as an edited transcript for the use of scholars and writers can receive copyright protection under the 1976 Federal Copyright Act is discussed. Ample precedent exists to determine that oral history is copyrightable. (MLW)
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