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Displaying 331 - 340 of 372| Topic | Question | Submission Date | Tag(s) |
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| Librarians & Infringement Claims | We are finding that librarians within larger institutions (like colleges and museums) are the go-to resource for copyright questi |
Copyright, Policy, Templates | |
| Posting Patron Images on Facebook; When is an image release required? | Are libraries legally required to obtain photo releases from all patrons (children's parents, teens, adults), even if we don't name those patro |
Image Rights, Policy, Privacy, Social Media, Trademarks and Branding | |
| Donation of photos for digital archive | Recently, our library has been given a collection of photographs that were previously on display in a local business location. |
Digital Access, Digitization and Copyright, Copyright, Donations, Ethics, Image Rights | |
| Copying Yearbooks | A member asked about a request for the library to provide copies of photos from yearbooks for a class reunion. |
Copyright, Digital Access, Digitization and Copyright, Yearbooks, Photocopies | |
| Inter-library Audio Files | More than once we have received requests to provide digital copies of audio files from institutions that wish to make them accessible either th |
Copyright, Fair Use, Music, Section 108 | |
| Poetry on display | I am working with an artist on a future display at our library. He is a regionally known professional artist. |
Copyright, Policy, Public Domain, Templates | |
| The Library of Things (and Bikes) | We are planning on installing a bike rack for our community members. With it begs the question, should we also loan bicycles? |
Collection Management, Policy, Templates | |
| Creating a poetry anthology | Is it permissible to create an anthology of 20-30 poems, all by British poets, to be distributed to an entire grade level of students to be use |
Copyright, Legal Poems, Public Domain | |
| Educational films without a license | A couple committees at the college my library is at want to present copyrighted films in the theatre as part of an educational fi |
Copyright, Fair Use, Section 110, TEACH Act | |
| Defamation and Adding Defamatory Content to Collections | Can a library be sued for defamation for adding defamatory content to its collection? |
Collection Management, Defamation, Policy |