On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 12:05 PM, Ian A. Holton <poeloq(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Can somebody enlighten me about fair-use of music
samples in articles about
musicians / music genres et cetera. I started uploading short (20-30 sec)
sound samples of examples for artists such as Eric Clapton (see
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Clapton ). Is this allowed / appreciated /
encouraged ?
If you use the recordings to make article's discussion more
enlightening they should be welcome. The recording should illustrate
some point made in the text. If the text says "Many Clapton songs
begin with a rhythmic kazoo solo", then by all means give us an
example.
See:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Music_samples
What you should avoid is adding a collection of clips down at the
bottom. Garnish is nice, but its expressly forbidden to use things
which are not freely licensed as garnish-- you need to have an
articulatable educational purpose for using the work and how doing so
makes the text more informative..
See the reasoning here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Non-free_content#Explanation_of_poliā¦
Sometimes people draw different lines between what is garnish and what
is informative. This occasionally causes some disputes. Please have
patience with the process and do your best to articulate how the
samples illustrate the points raised in the text and you should get
good results. Thank you for your efforts to contribute.