Dear list...I'm pretty sure I know the answer to this question but this is not really my forte so I'd love to hear from those whose forte it is! Here's the situation:
Every spring, students in one of our programs put on a dance performance on our campus for students, staff, faculty, and I think anyone else who wants to drop in. This year they also put on the performance in the evening at an off-campus venue, filmed it, and have now asked the library to make the DVD available for circulation. I'm a reference librarian but also our cataloger and as I was watching the DVD to get some information about it for the catalog record, I saw the list of dances and the specific music (most of it current/modern/popular) that had accompanied each piece. Of course now I'm wondering whether the students A, needed permission to use this music in this situation (I think so) and B, if so whether they actually obtained permission (I doubt it). Here's my question: should permission have been obtained for the music used in the performance, and if so should the library accept and circulate the DVD if permission was not obtained? Thanks in advance for any advice. I'm an avid reader of this list; you guys all know so much more about this stuff than I do! Cary Jardine, MLS Research and Instruction Librarian Antioch University New England Keene, NH 03431 603.283.2405 [email protected]
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