Sermon Notes?

[ProVobis]

It would be pointless for me. Our pastor lists the sermon on the parish website the following Sunday.

 

[promethius]

It is even possible that the recording without the other party’s consent is a violation of your state’s law on such things (wide variation from state to state on whether one or both must consent, etc.).

This is true. Voice recordings in many states require consent of the recorded… however, in most cases that refers to publication of said tapings or laws regarding evidence allowed in court… and often refers to a “reasonable expectation of privacy”.

So that said, I think that a priest preaching in a publicly available mass fails on the “reasonable expectation of privacy” test. Furthermore, as long as the person is only making the recording for the private use of listening to it so as to make notes later, that it would fail the publication test as well.

That being said, it would still be proper courtesy to inform the priest that you intend to record his homilies (and to desist if he is uncomfortable), though it wouldn’t be against the law in most states.

Now that I think of it, it is a violation of the speaker’s copyright right’s.

I think what you meant to say is that it would be a violation of “intellectual property” rights… since something which is not copyrighted doesn’t necessarily have that same level of protection or right assigned to it.

Again, here, however, the priest is espousing catholic teachings which are connected with church doctrine… not giving a seminar of his personal, unique, and inventive theories. As such, the protection for intellectual property right would not apply. Furthermore, even if it COULD fall under intellectual property, if the person is using it privately in a way that does not detract from the priest’s “profitability” of his product (intellectual property) then it would not violate his rights in that regard either.

 

[ProVobis]

I think what you meant to say is that it would be a violation of “intellectual property” rights… since something which is not copyrighted doesn’t necessarily have that same level of protection or right assigned to it.

No, but it still could be plagiarism if the proper source isn’t given its due.

 

[promethius]

No, but it still could be plagiarism if the proper source isn’t given its due.

Only in the course of public use. One obviously does not need to give proper sourcing for private use such as making notes of a homily at a later time…