TECH: Audio Guidelines: Multimedia

[Floyd Pentlin <fpentlin@GARFIELD.LEESUMMIT.K12.MO.US>]

Group -- A friend just sent me some information on "fair use of copyrighted
digital materials."

It says:  "Up to 10%, but no more than 30 seconds of a musical work"

So does that mean if a song by Nine-Inch Nails is 3 minutes and 26 seconds,
(206 seconds) this means that a student can use ONLY 20.6 seconds of the
song on a multimeda work because that is "up to 10%" of the selection?

In effect, the rule is any music selection under 5 minutes (300 seconds)
the part you can use will be less than 30 seconds (10% of the 300 seconds)?

Am I being anal retentive about this?

My colleage doesn't read it that way and feels you can use up to 30 seconds
as a minimum.  Inquiring minds want to know.  Floyd

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