I had a situation today that bothers me, and I'm not sure of the outcome here: are radio and tv broadcasts copyrighted? Are all these items on Youtube and rapidshare kosher or a violation? Someone has downloaded the complete BBC broadcast of Cole Porter's JUBILEE onto rapidshare, and I alerted the Cole Porter Musical and Literary Trust to it. They're with a large lawfirm and if they want to pursue the matter, I'm all for it.
If and when I pass around CDs of JUBILEE, I've got an edited set of discs in which I can remove all of the falsehoods in the announcer's introduction but the fact that a complete broadcast with lies concerning my involvement is out and about for anyone to download bothers me. It's my career and my work being affected and I feel duty bound to protect myself since Ian Marshall Fisher and his London team didn't.
So, is this a copyright violation or is the attitude that tv and radio broadcasts are Public Domain?