[pigsonthewing]

In recent years, the BL have worked closely with Wikipedians to share media under free/ open licences, including over a million images on Flickr Commons, and releasing audio recordings of birds, to which they own the copyright. I've worked with them on both projects. They also employed a Wikipedian in Residence for a year, and generously hosted a Wikipedia conference and other Wikipedia events.

[pbhjpbhj]

Surely there's no copyright in birdsong recordings (taken individually at least). There is no creative input from the recorder.