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Clearances Section 5 Music My specialist area is researching the occurrence of alopecia in young, healthy females. I have put together a DVD which showcases my most recent research and includes some footage of a young girl set to a song by The Rolling Stones. My university will be selling this DVD to other research-based institutions. How can I get permission to use this song? You will find with music that most record companies and some individual rights holders use "collecting societies" to license out their copyright works and collect licence fees in return. For example, there is PRS for Music (www.prsformusic.com) which licenses out the recording rights of composers, music publishers and some record companies and deals with the public performance and broadcasts of musical works, collecting for the writers and publishers of music. There is also Phonographic Performance Limited (PPL) (www.ppluk.com) which collects and distributes fees for the performance of any musical work and for any work that receives air-play. Music clearances are usually agreed and negotiated by phone and can be done within days. Contrast this with the length of time it might take to clear written text! As with written text, you will need to tell the rights holder exactly what rights you require and how you will use them. Films and programmes I want to use footage from BBC2's Horizon programme on the Higgs Boson to demonstrate the current understanding of particle physics. How can I get the right to do this? Under its licensing scheme, the Educational Recording Agency (ERA) (www. era.org.uk) allows educational establishments to record certain broadcasts, as long as such recordings are made for non-commercial teaching purposes. The broadcasts which can be recorded are whose which are for general reception by members of the public i.e. not pay per view, on-demand and interactive services. Accordingly, the ERA's licensing scheme covers 28