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Displaying 351 - 360 of 372| Topic | Question | Submission Date | Tag(s) |
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| Transmission of Television News Broadcast | We are aware of the requirement to have a movie license to show a movie in a public forum, such as in a public library and the restrictions ass |
Broadcasting, Copyright, Streaming | |
| Time Off Benefit Policy | A member asks…[We] are switching to a Paid Time Off (PTO) model in 2018 and are looking for guidance on how to handle payout of the benefit whe |
Employee Rights, Management, Policy, PTO, Vacation, and Leave | |
| Library's Facebook Page versus Staff Member's Facebook Page | We are struggling with a freedom of expression issue here at our library. |
Management, Policy, Social Media | |
| Fundraising with GoFundMe | A member asked if there are any legal issues to consider when using GoFundMe to fund-raise, especially for association libraries. |
501c3, Association Libraries, Fundraising | |
| Using Books on Social Media | Can we film a story time done at the library using copyrighted books, and then either stream the event live over Facebook for a one-time showin |
Copyright, Derivative Works, Public Domain, Streaming, Library Programming and Events, Online Programming, Social Media, Story Time, TEACH Act | |
| Skating the Line between Helpful Information and Legal Advice | This answer was inspired by some recent questions… |
Copyright, Fair Use, Policy, Templates | |
| Cookbook Recipes as Textbooks | An instructor has loaded many scanned pages from a cookbook (possibly multiple cookbooks) into her class Blackboard page so that students do no |
Copyright, Fair Use, Academic Libraries | |
| Assisting Patrons with Altering Legal Documents | It has come up at our Reference meetings that patrons are using our technology to alter documents such as doctor’s notes (extending days of med |
Policy, Privacy, Ethics, Patron Confidentiality, Forgery and Fraud | |
| Coursepacks and Copyright | I have had several requests by faculty to approve the coursepacks they have put together. |
Copyright, Fair Use, Photocopies, Academic Libraries, Legal Poems | |
| Providing Copies of Newspaper Puzzles for Patrons | Patrons have suggested we provide photocopies of the daily crossword puzzles out of the newspaper because of other patrons doing the puzzle out |
Copyright, Newspapers, Photocopies, Section 108 |