GEN: Copyright

[David Lininger <tss003@MAIL.CONNECT.MORE.NET>]

Colleagues:

Our media class would like to be able to use some popular songs in our
weekly school news show. We have attempted to contact various record
companies to request permission, and so far not one has even answered us.
This simply encourages the students to use whatever they want without
asking. One of the students even found a fair use web page, which has a
section that would imply that they can use small portions without further
permission. This is what they found:

4.2.3 Music, Lyrics, and Music Video
Up to 10%, but in no event more than 30 seconds, of the music and lyrics
from an individual musical work (or in the aggregate of extracts from an
individual work), whether the music work is embodied in copies, or audio or
audiovisual works, may be reproduced or otherwise incorporated as a part of
a multimedia project created under Section 2. Any alterations to a musical
work shall not change the basic melody or the fundamental character of the
work.
http://www.libraries.psu.edu/mtss/fairuse/guidelinedoc.html

Do the rest of you interpret this the same way?


David Lininger (KB0ZKE), LMS
Hickory County R-1 Schools
Rt 1, Box 838
Urbana, MO 65767
mailto: tss003@mail.connect.more.net

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