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Roundtable: Copyright Issues and Issues Beyond Copyright

Abstract

"What we’ve decided to do as our format for this presentation is: we have a number of scenarios that people have suggested of things that have actually come across their desks in the course of doing what they do. And we thought we would just go through these quickly and talk about the issues that they raise—a sort of issue-spotting exercise—and try to offer some guidance about maybe how to deal with those issues as well. We’re going to start by talking about a number of things other than copyright. We’ve had a lot of discussion today about copyright and we may get to some more copyright here if we have time, but I’m going to start by talking about a number of noncopyright issues in the areas of privacy, defamation, things like that that very often come up in the context both of sound and audiovisual materials, but also in the case of text and photographs and so on.

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