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• Are there any artworks we can use in merchandise without permission?
• Are there any clearances or licences which a committee organising a market should be aware of?
• Are there any copyright problems in using other people's ideas for fundraising, or in selling branded chocolates or in holding lamington drives, dance-a-thons or sing-a-thons?
• Are there any situations when APRA can’t license the public performance of music?
• Are there special licences available for the public performance of music by community choral groups?
• At the end of an eisteddfod, we hold a winners concert. Are there any differences in what we need to clear for competition and the concert?
• Can a choir or band make arrangements of music?
• Can a performer or private music teacher copy text or scripts for adjudicators?
• Can a performer or private music teacher photocopy music for adjudicators?   
• Can a school or private music college photocopy text or music for students entering an eisteddfod?
• Can an orchestra borrow music from another orchestra?
• Can an orchestra import scores?
• Can APRA license use of music being performed as part of a ballet?
• Can contestants or the committee make compilation tapes for dance segments, or to assist in the smooth running of the competition?
• Can copyright be owned jointly? If so, what are the implications?
• Can I photocopy music for an accompanist?
• Can participants in an eisteddfod perform from photocopies of music?
• Can people under 18 own copyright?
• Can speakers at our conference publish their papers elsewhere?
• Can we allow a radio or television station to do a live broadcast or netcast of our concert or eisteddfod?
• Can we allow a radio station to record our concert or eisteddfod for broadcasting later?
• Can we allow the media and other people to film or photograph performances?
• Can we allow the media or documentary makers to film and photograph exhibitions and other static displays?
• Can we change the lyrics for songs?
• Can we copy sheet music to use in rehearsal and performance?
• Can we film or video performances of a play?
• Can we give photographs and transparencies to the press or to other people such as researchers or critics?
• Can we make a compilation tape for performances?
• Can we make a play from a book?
• Can we make backing tapes for performances?
• Can we make craft items for sale or to use as raffle prizes?
• Can we photocopy articles from journals and chapters from books to provide participants with background information?
• Can we photocopy hired parts if we want to preserve bowing marks and other performance notes which players mark on their parts?
• Can we photocopy music to make performance easier?   
• Can we photocopy parts if the publisher doesn't have enough copies available for hire?
• Can we photocopy parts if we don't have enough for a concert?
• Can we protect our idea for a community arts event?
• Can we protect our ideas for promoting our festival?
• Can we protect the name or slogan of our event?
• Can we publish entries from a competition?
• Can we put papers from our conference on a database or on the Internet?
• Can we re-stage or tour a community-devised play once the first season has finished?
• Can we reproduce copyright material in an "advertorial" to be placed in a local newspaper?
• Can we run a competition to design a poster or logo?
• Can we sell exclusive rights to our event to a TV station?
• Can we sell leftover posters to the general public?
• Can we sell photos of people on postcards or T-shirts?
• Can we sell T-shirts and other merchandise with the event logo on them?
• Can we sell videos of concerts and eisteddfod performances to families or to the general public?
• Can we stage a play which wins the competition we are running?
• Can we tape papers presented by speakers?
• Can we transfer footage from video to film?
• Can we transpose or arrange music for a concert?
• Can we use an old artistic work in our advertising?
• Can we use another artwork as a logo or on our poster if we change it by 10%?
• Can we use backing tapes to accompany performers?
• Can we write our own abstracts of conference proceedings?
• Do eisteddfod committees need to clear performance rights?
• Do non-profit organisations need permission to use artwork in advertising?
• Do organisers of an eisteddfod need permission to photocopy set works of poetry, prose and drama to send to entrants?
• Do the organisers of an event or festival own copyright in a song commissioned to promote the festival or event?
• Do we need an APRA licence if the performers are only playing classical music?
• Do we need permission to copy cartoon characters and other artwork for a Rock Eisteddfod (for example, as a costume, or as part of the set)?
• Do we need permission to photograph, film, netcast or broadcast artworks?
• Do we need permission to read out poetry, prose or plays in public?
• Do we need permission to use a photo of a musician performing at our event in an ad we want to run?
• Do we need permission to use recorded music during interval or in the foyers?
• Do we need to get permission to hold rehearsals for concerts?
• Do we still need permission if entry is free?
• Does an eisteddfod adjudicator have the right to destroy photocopies?
• Does someone own copyright in his or her life story, or in things which happen to them?
• How do I get permission to screen a film in public?   
• How much should we pay for permission to put artwork on posters and logos?
• Is an organising committee liable for infringements of copyright by stallholders at a market held in conjunction with a community arts event?
• Is permission needed to make a costume which someone else has designed?
• Should people who participate in a community arts project give the organisers copyright so they can commercialise what is created?
• Should we ban people photographing or filming a community arts activity?
• Should we get permission to publish or distribute papers and conference proceedings?
• Should we get written permission to publish papers?
• Should we make it a condition of entry that copyright in an entry is assigned to the organisers of the competition?
• We commissioned a video of a concert. Who owns copyright and the tape?
• We would like to record concert and eisteddfod performances both for archival purposes and so that performers can have a copy. Can we do this?
• What can an eisteddfod committee do to limit its liability for any infringing public performance?
• What copyright information should we put in the front of a book of conference papers?
• What copyright issues might there be in holding fundraising dinner or dance?
• What copyright ownership and licensing issues should we consider if we are organising a community mural?
• What copyright ownership and licensing issues should we consider if we are organising a community-devised script?
• What copyright permissions will we need to stage a concert involving live performances?
• What do we need to think about if we want to run a competition to design a poster or logo?
• What ethical considerations should we take into account if we are making agreements with artists and other community arts creators?
• What happens if a person involved in a project drops out? Can we continue to use his or her work?
• What is meant by "sufficient acknowledgement" for the exceptions relating to "criticism or review" and "reporting the news"?
• What material can be photocopied for performances or rehearsals?
• What performances might be involved in seminars, conferences, master classes and workshops?
• What permissions do we need to screen a film or video?
• What permissions do we need to use sound bites in our advertising?
• What permissions might be needed for the speech and drama sections of an eisteddfod?
• What public performance permissions may we need for a comedy night?
• What public performance rights need to be cleared for vocalists and instrumentalists competing in an eisteddfod?
• What rights might need to be cleared for the dance and dance drama sections of an eisteddfod?   
• What risks does an eisteddfod committee run if it allows photocopies of copyright music to be used by competitors?
• What should we do if we want to tape a performance in order to sell CDs?
• What steps should we take so that we're not liable for infringing copyright if third parties film, record or photograph a community arts activity?
• When can someone rely on the "criticism or review" exceptions to photograph, record, film or tape a community arts event or performance?
• When can someone rely on the "research or study" exceptions to photograph, record, film or tape a community arts event or performance?
• When do we need to clear rights for performances or screenings?
• When is music used in a "dramatic context"?
• When will we need permission for these performances?   
• Where can we get standard agreements for community arts organisations, artists and volunteers, which will be fair to everyone?
• Where do we get permissions?   
• Who do we get permission from to stage a play or musical?
• Who owns copyright in a collaborative script?
• Who owns copyright in entries from school pupils or university students
• Who owns copyright in papers presented at a conference?
• Who's responsible for clearing public performance rights?
• Will the government own copyright in something we create if we receive arts funding from the government?