[LM_NET] TARGET: Copyright question: Music at school events and videotaping

[Sharon Knowles <SKnowles@STEDS.ORG>]

What official policies or procedures do your schools have for handling
the sticky wicket of copyright permissions? Does your school even play
popular music at assemblies, pep rallies, etc.? If a parent requests a
copy of a videotaped school event in which music has been played
(football game, concert, class play, event photos set to music, etc.)
are you able to give away copies of the video?  What if you charge for
the copy?  

 

Is there a clearing house that makes this easy or is this a matter of
individual detective work on a case by case basis?

 

Does anyone have actual legal advice from a school or district attorney
for guidance?

 

We want to do the right and legal thing and train our students as well
but feel a bit overwhelmed.

 

Thanks!

 

Sharon Knowles

Librarian

Saint Edward's School

Vero Beach, FL

sknowles@steds.org

 

At the moment that we persuade a child, any child, to cross that
threshold, that magic threshold into a library, we change their lives
forever, for the better. ~~Barack Obama

 


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