Public Performance Rights
Various campus offices, student groups, etc., contact us to ask if they are permitted to show
media items from our collection to groups. The short answer is that only items for which we have
been granted public performance rights can be shown to groups other than for face-to-face
instruction as part of the regular institutional curriculum.
We have begun a project of updating the catalog with information about what rights we do have.
When viewing a record in the online catalog, look for the "Terms of Use" field near the call
number.
- If the Terms of Use field shows "Personal viewing or face-to-face teaching exemption only," we
do not have any public performance rights for that item. To show this item to a group, you would
need to obtain a license for each performance. The largest licensing company for is
Swank Motion Pictures
(1-800-876-5577).
- If the Terms of Use field shows just "Public Performance Rights," this can be shown to groups,
so long as no admission is charged. If there is anything more after "Public Performance Rights," it
will specify further restrictions.
- If there is no Terms of Use field displayed, and the Location shows "Undergraduate Media
Collection", please email
ipmacquisitions@library.uiuc.edu to ask for a rights
search. Please include the title and complete call number from the catalog record.
- If the Location is somewhere other than "Undergraduate Media Collection," please contact the
staff of the holding library for information.
To search for items in our collection which have public performance rights indicated in the
catalog:
- Go to the
Online Library
Catalog
- Click on Advanced Search.
- In the box to the right of "Search:", type "public performance rights" without the quotation
marks.
- Click on the menu to the right that says "any of these" and choose "as a phrase."
- Click on the "within" menu to the right and choose "MFHD Search."
- Select Undergraduate Media Collection from the Location menu.
- You may use the second and third "Search:" lines to limit your search.
- Click the Search button to view the results of your search. To view the full record for an
item, click on the title.
No matter what rights we hold, media items from the library's collection may not be used in any
setting in which admission is charged or for any commercial purposes. Public performance rights
differ significantly from digital rights, so please note that items for which the library has
public performance rights may not include the ability to reformat or distribute electronically.
Duplication is also prohibited.
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