You will of course probably not get caught but I would NOT mess with music rights. It is definitely illegal to use music without licence ( unless it is PD) I can not tell you how many films I have seen over the years that had to passed on for distribution because a naive filmmaker used uncleared music. I remember watching a bad Chinese movie years ago where a character was listening to the radio which announced they were going to play Michael Jackson's Thriller, luckily the character turned it off before it started. The film was now worth picking up but had it been that would have killed it. You students may have dodged a bullet with the performance itself, the music licensing folks make a lot of spot inspections for violations though mainly in bars & restaurants but believe or not HS musical productions have been gone after on numerous occasions.
On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 12:57 PM, Cary Jardine <[email protected]> wrote: > 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] > > > > > > > VIDEOLIB is intended to encourage the broad and lively discussion of > issues relating to the selection, evaluation, acquisition,bibliographic > control, preservation, and use of current and evolving video formats in > libraries and related institutions. It is hoped that the list will serve as > an effective working tool for video librarians, as well as a channel of > communication between libraries,educational institutions, and video > producers and distributors. > >
VIDEOLIB is intended to encourage the broad and lively discussion of issues relating to the selection, evaluation, acquisition,bibliographic control, preservation, and use of current and evolving video formats in libraries and related institutions. It is hoped that the list will serve as an effective working tool for video librarians, as well as a channel of communication between libraries,educational institutions, and video producers and distributors.
