GEN: Programming on local cable channel

[Yolan Mistele <ymistele@INTACCESS.COM>]

Dear LM_Netters

Recently our community's cable educational access group moved their
headquarters and equipment into the high school.  The channel has been use
to air and re-air school board meetings, school events like musical
performances, sporting events, etc. and public meetings pertaining to the
school district on topics of interest to the community.

A teacher who is also on the cable board came to me, the "copyright expert".
The group is interested in taping "educational programming" which is aired
by broadcast networks, cable providers, and also make use
of the C/KU band satellite dish owned by the school district in order to
re-air the "educational programming" on the local educational access channel
provided the the cable company.

Is this legal? Are there copyright issues that need to be dealt with?
I don't know the answer and I'm not sure where to go to find the answer/s.

Do any of you with similiar experiences know where I should start?
Thanks for the help.

Yolan Mistele, Library Media Specialist
Lake Mills High School
Lake Mills, WI  53551
ymistele@intaccess.com
920 648-2355 ext. 309
920 648-2357 (fax)

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