Will I break the law if I do this?

no you are not breaking the law. one popular example is the production grease. every city in north america has a school that puts this on and there has never been a single charge

Technically, yes, it is copyright infrigement. But in a case like this, I doubt that anyone will care.

Paying for the music has nothing to do with copyright infrigement. You pay for personal use when you buy the music. Here you are using it in a play that you will charge admission for. If this was broadway, you would have big problems. But they will not be concerned about a middle school trying to raise a little money.

No, it isn't illegal as long as you have bought the songs off of iTunes. You can burn songs onto CDs after you buy them on iTunes because you paid for it.

I don't believe that is illegal, but you should definitely credit the writers/composers of the songs and the movie. You really have to be careful with copyright laws... they're so confusing sometimes. XP Break a leg!

yes it is copyright infringement with out a written ok to use it from the copyright holder. not that they will ever know but some A** H**les look for things like that and the fine is BIG.

It is not illegal because you pay for the songs, if you used Limewire or Kazaa or others that you do not have to pay for the music, then you would be breaking copyright laws, but iTunes is licensed to sell music online.

If you buy the music and write the names of the artists and songs in the playbill it's good enough, even if you don't put it in the playbill no one is going to sue you. As long as you buy the music it's fine.

you will be fine. everyone does it. my high school did it with grease, my middle school did it with annie. and we used a slew of burned songs for our school fashion shows.

if it really concerns you, why not buy the official soundtrack?

no that is not breaking the law... Because at my middle school we did the same thing threeweeks ago.

I think if you are legally buying the songs it's alright.