If you wish to use music outside the repertoire, please get prior written permission.

• staff playing music direct from an original disc in a lecture.
• staff copying music from original disc onto another disc to play in a lecture. 
• staff dubbing multiple copies of the music onto discs and distributing them to students
• students copying music from the repertoire for their course of study
• audio or video recording a lecture with music
• staff making copies of a recorded lecture onto discs and giving them to students
• archiving a recorded lecture with music.

Remember to always attribute the creator's work.  Recordings can be made in any format.   Please attach to every recording the VU music label (label in PDF format, or label in GIF format) 

Our music licence does not allow:

• emailing or communicating (through the internet) a music file
• emailing copies of a recorded lecture with music in it
• students making infringing copies of music or sound recordings
• copying films, videos, music video recordings or lyrics of songs.

VU staff may take music from the repertoire and place it on a secure intranet site.  Only VU staff and students should have access using a username and password.  The music on the site must be streamed through the Learning Edge Server.  This ensures that the music can only be listened to and cannot be downloaded or copied.

This may include:

• streaming audio and video recordings of music for students as part of a course of instruction
• streaming copies of recorded past lectures with music
• live streaming a lecture with music
• streaming intranet radio

The music must be from the repertoire and be put over a secure student intranet (for example: library E-Reserve).  Remember to properly attribute the music and display the VU music label (label in PDF format, or label in GIF format) on the recording or file heading.

As part of the music licence, VU staff and students may also perform music from the repertoire:

• as part of a course of instruction
• at a VU event (foe example: a graduation ceremony)
• for the sole benefit of VU employees in the workplace.

You may not:

• perform music and associated words so as to burlesque or parody the work
• perform any musical work with new or substituted lyrics

You must get a separate licence or prior written permission to:

• play or perform music at student events, or facilities managed by the Student Union on campus (This includes music played in VU bars, fitness centres, and performances of bands for student entertainment.)
• perform music or sound recordings at any event or occasion where an entry fee is charged
• use music for advertising purposes
• use music on the University premises for anything other than the educational purposes of VU
• perform more than 20 minutes of music from a choral work
• perform a grand right work or excerpts of that work (including any opera, musical play, ballet, review or pantomime to the extent that it consists of words and music written expressly for it)
• perform musical works and associated words composed for a ballet if that performance is accompanied by a visual representation of that ballet or excerpts of that ballet
• perform a musical work or excerpts of that work (performed in a dramatic context).

You can make audio or video recordings of a VU event at which music or sound recordings from the repertoire are played or performed.  These recordings can be accessed by VU staff and students only.  They can be:

• made strictly for private or domestic purposes (of staff and students), at no cost, or on a cost-recovery basis only
• put on the VU intranet through the Learning Edge Server
• held in VU archives.

Please attach to audio recordings and display on video recordings the VU music label (label in PDF format, or label in GIF format).

You may not make video recordings:

• that include advertising or promotional material
• of material not allowed to be performed under the licence.

Telephones throughout VU are allowed to play music on hold from the repertoire.

If you wish to place this material online, please use a secure intranet site.  Only VU staff and students should have access using a username and password.  The music should be streamed through the Learning Edge Server.  Please include the VA Copyright warning notice.

• 10% of a sheet music piece

Please take care when copying music books that contain a number of works.  Before you copy an entire work, you must check that it is not available for purchase as a separately published item.

You may copy beyond these limits if:

• you are satisfied, after reasonable investigation, that copies (other than second-hand copies) of the work cannot be obtained within a reasonable time at an ordinary commercial price
• you get written permission from the copyright owner
• the copyright has expired (the composer died before 1 January 1955).

Remember to always attribute the creator's work.

• look at the detailed guidelines on our Copyright website
• book into a Copyright training session
• contact VU's Copyright Officer on 9919 4480 or antony.ley@vu.edu.au

• Music Copyright Guide

Disclaimer:  This information is provided for guidance only.  For legal advice regarding Copyright law, please contact the Legal Services Department at VU.