Copyright Office

Performing Music for Educational Purposes

The University can perform music for educational purposes. You can:

Some conditions and limitations apply:

  1. If performing at a University event, other than in a class, you may only include music covered by the Music societies repertoires:
  2. It must be for educational purposes - educational purposes are defined being for a particular course of instruction or for the administration of that course. Educational purposes do not cover general or commercial activities of the University, such as marketing and promotion.
  3. If recording the performance, you must abide by the requirements for recording performances:
    • If recording a radio broadcast as part of a class, you must follow the requirements for radio broadcasts.
    • If recording a performance of a University event, you must comply with the following:
      • Marking Requirements - the following information must be displayed either on the recording, its packaging, labelling or file headings:
        • the title of each musical work;
        • the name of each composer, lyricist and arranger of the musical work; and
        • if the recording contains an ARIA sound recording, the artist/group name and the record company label.
      • Notice to Users - the following information must be displayed either on the recording, its packaging, labelling or file headings:
        • This recording has been made by The University of Melbourne under the express terms of an educational licence between it, AMCOS and ARIA and may only be used as authorised by The University of Melbourne pursuant to the terms of that licence.
      • Access to recording must be restricted - Recordings only be made available to University of Melbourne staff and students. Under no circumstances can music recorded under the music licence be made available for download. Recordings can be streamed so long as access is restricted and requires a username and password. A streaming server is available. Please contact Digital Media Services of the Copyright Office for information.
      • Charging for the recordings can only be for cost recovery - There are no limits on the number of copies that you can make e.g. if there are 400 students in the course, you can make 400 copies, plus spares.
      • Recordings can be video or audio and in any required format - formats include CDs, DVDs, audio cassettes, video cassettes, IT system drives such as iPods, mp3 players or PC disk drives.

 

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