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I have transcribed the public domain recordings of the speeches of a famous speaker in India. The speeches have been transcribed and published previously by an earlier team, but as the recordings are of poor sound quality, the team could not catch many words as a result of which the collected transcriptions they published were of poor quality-- missing many words and containing many erroneous words. That book was copyright registered. I have now listened to the recordings myself and transcribed the collected speeches again. The transcriptions I have done, although of the same speeches, are quite different from the earlier book as I have been able to catch the many words missing from the earlier publication, and also I have caught the correct word in most all the places where the original team had transcribed wrong terms. I am not writing any commentary. All the words of the text I will publish are the words of the speaker himself. But as the sound recordings were very poor, it was a huge job to transcribe the speeches correctly and accurately, including all the words. This required listening to each speech around 20 times in order to gradually make out all the words.

My questions:
1. The speaker, who has since deceased, is obviously the author of the spoken speeches. Who is the author of the book? The words printed are not my words, as I have simply transcribed what he spoke. But it has taken tremendous work on my part to transcribe the speeches. Does this make me the author of the current book? Or would I be called instead the editor? The US Copyright Office eCO standard application asks who the author is.

2. I am filing the application for the copyright registration. Does that make me the claimant?


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