K-20 librarians interactive video conferencing

[Jim Loter <>]

Hi there,

It was great to lurk and listen in on the call the other day. I had a 
question that really isn't directly related to technology that I didn't find 
a good opportunity to ask, so I'll pose it here.

For those of you in libraries that are currently live-streaming and/or 
video-recording author readings/talks, have you met any resistance or 
flat-out refusal from authors (or other rights-holders) to grant permission 
for such a thing?

At The Seattle Public Library we audio-record all our major programs and make 
the audio available within a few days via podcast subscriptions and download. 
We get the author's/speaker's authorization to do this and haven't had any 
(that I'm aware of) push-back, but our program managers fear that taking the 
step to live-video and/or asynchronous video publication will "cross the 
line" with some.

Anything to share?

Thanks,
Jim

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