On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 12:05 PM, Ian A. Holton poeloq@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_polic...
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.