onsdagen den 30 november 2011 13.47.21 skrev Julien Claassen: > Hello everyone! > I'd like to cite from a relatively recent work (1970), which of course is > still copyrighted. So can I do it per se? I'd just like to cite a main > phrase for a bit (2-4 bars) I suspect. any hints on that would be very much > appreciated. Hard to answer, and it depends of the context. If just one beat from that phrase is significant for the melody, then you might run into trouble. On the other hand, you can (if I understands everything right) often cite several seconds of a song without paying royalties when for example showing or reviewing song. Here is links to some (hopefully blind friendly) documents that might help you: http://entertainment.howstuffworks.com/music-royalties.htm/printable http://www.alankorn.com/articles/sampling.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_use Hope that helps Jostein _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
