Re: the audio aspect
At our institution we have a blanket license for using music in public events
such as graduations and so forth. It covers "happy birthday" and "we are the
champions" and other top media wonders. I'm not sure if that is limited by
format, I.e. if it only means played from an
This almost surely falls under "fair use" Heck it is what "fair use" is
intended for using portions of works to create new works. For the record it
may help slightly that it is educational and non profit but this kind of
use should be "fair use" regardless. The only issue I can see is if it was
say
One of our faculty members wants to give a speech for an event at the
university. She knows she needs to get public performance rights for videos she
wants to show during her speech. But she is asking if she wants to show only
clips less than three minutes each from several documentaries and fea
