[Wikipedia-l] little earthquakes page - song extract?!

Adam Williamson aw280 at cam.ac.uk
Mon Sep 9 22:50:31 UTC 2002


On Mon, 2002-09-09 at 23:32, Giskart wrote:
> Adam Williamson wrote:
> 
> >The page for Little Earthquakes, a Tori Amos album, includes an extract
> >from one of the album's songs. This seems a bit dubious, copyright-wise!
> >I've removed the link for now, to be safe. Does anyone know if the
> >extract is legally OK for inclusion in Wikipedia? Check the history of
> >Tori Amos/Little Earthquakes to see the page with the link (damn
> >subpages).
> >  
> >
> There was some talk about this a few weeks ago, somthing about the 
> articel of Simon and Garfunkel (there is also audio there).
> The English Wikipedia calls it "fair use"  and allow it. The Dutch 
> Wikipedia calls it a copyright violation and does not allow it.  Do not 
> know of the others. -- giskart

Ah, that's a point. Forgot about the 5% of copyright material rule.
HOWEVER, I believe in music isn't the track as well as the entire
recording under copyright? i.e., you could only take 5% of a track?
Anyone know?
-- 
adamw




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