BROADCASTING AND COPYRIGHT.
[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sm,—Mr. Godfrey Isaacs's recent speech on Broadcasting, at the annual dinner of the Society of Authors, Playwrights and Musicians, is a reminder that authors and musicians are con- fronted with what will practically be a new public. Questions of copyright will have to be considered, of course, but I see no reason why there should be any more difficulty in this regard than there was when the cinema began to grow fast into a medium of artistic expression. Authors, looking to their society to safeguard their rights, should welcome the prospect of what appears to be a new market. I see no reason why, as time goes on, they should not be writing, in the first instance, exclusively for " listeners-in." The limitation imposed by this medium—the car is slower than the eye—should be au incentive in itself.—I am, Sir, &c., The Summit. Stevenage, Herts., WILKINSON SannnEN.
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