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Quoting Voice of America: illegal?
It is my understanding that quoting the Voice of America articles in news services (NYT, CNN, &c.) is against the law, but I can find no cases where an organization was prosecuted for this.
Am I mistaken, or not? A reference would be helpful to me.
Quoting Voice of America is not covered by fair use laws because VOA material is not covered by copyright: it is material produced by the US Government for external consumption.
(That is why there are no VOA outlets within the United States - most Americans don't even know VOA exists, or that their tax money pays for it - and it used to have the third largest output of radio broadcast in the world after the BBC and Radio Moscow - I am not sure now that Radio Moscow has transformed itself.)
If you include Radio Sawa/Radio Marti/Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, &c., VOA may have the largest output of all.
More recently, the Broadcasting Board of Governors (the administrative body over VOA) has spoken of abandoning Article I of the VOA Charter, which requires objective and balanced reporting, because it is a concept from a bygone era, and no longer applies in to-day's America.
2 Answers
- Anonymous1 decade agoFavorite Answer
The Broadcasting Board of Governors serve as defenders of the VOA
Charter. All the planks of the VOA Charter remain unchanged since it was
signed into law in 1976 and enshrined intact as part of the
International Broadcasting Act of 1994.
Given VOA's outstanding and balanced reporting, it is routinely and
legally quoted by other news outlets. VOA's terms of use include these
details. Credit for any use of VOA material should be given to
voanews.com, Voice of America, or VOA, and we ask that you not abridge
or edit any VOA material which you may use.All text, audio and video
material produced exclusively by the Voice of America is public domain.
However, some images and graphics (such as Associated Press) are
licensed for use and covered by all applicable copyright laws.
- ?Lv 61 decade ago
You can quote anything or anyone as long as you cite and give proper credit and do not republish entire works. So you can quote a few lines from any article if you cite proper credit but you cannot quote using the entire article. Look at the Fair Use law.
Source(s): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_use