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You are absolutely correct.<div> It is illegal to videotape any show without the express permission of the authors of the script. I did a quick check of MTI's website and found this</div><div><br></div><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 15px; "><font face="Arial" size="3" color="#1469b3" style="font: 12.0px Arial; color: #1469b3"><b>Videotaping</b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 15px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; color: rgb(20, 105, 179); min-height: 14px; "><b></b><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 15px; "><font face="Arial" size="3" color="#333333" style="font: 12.0px Arial; color: #333333">Copyright law gives authors the exclusive right to control the reproduction of their work. When MTI grants a license for a live stage production of a show, that license does not include the right to tape it because the authors retain the sole right to decide when or if their work is recorded in any way. Even a videotape made for classroom use, as a personal memento or as an archival school record violates the authors’ separate right to reproduce their work. In many cases, the authors have already granted such rights exclusively to film or television companies, in which case you would also be infringing upon the rights granted by the authors to a third party.</font></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); ">source:</span></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333"><a href="http://www.mtishows.com/content.asp?id=2_4_0">http://www.mtishows.com/content.asp?id=2_4_0</a></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333">It is also illegal to change ANYTHING in a script.</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333">The language is pretty much the same for all licensing agencies...</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333">I am aware of theaters that changed the script and then someone ran a scene on the web and the theater got "bit" by both laws.</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333"><br></font></div><div><div>On Mar 30, 2010, at 11:13 PM, Ken Milota wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:12pt;color:#ff0000;">I've searched many musicals on YouTube and a lot of high school and colleges have certain scenes and songs posted from their live audience productions. According to what I've been informed of, this is illegal and the producers of these productions can be fined.<br><br>I was just wondering how so many of these videos are on there and have not been deleted and how so many schools and theatres were able to get away with this. Can't they get fined and blacklisted for future shows with their playright company if someone were to report them? 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