On 9/28/08, Carl Beckhorn cbeckhorn@fastmail.fm wrote:
The broader question "When do snippets of copyrighted songs meet the requirements of NFCC" is (as far as I can see) extremely difficult.
As far as I know, I have yet to see an example that actually meets NFCC. Maybe I'm biased because I couldn't get the v-ggood jorbis player to work.
But if I'm familiar with the song I can hum a few bars in my head while I'm reading the article... you know, about 30 seconds worth... only to ask "okay, so what's the point of this?"
Sometimes I wonder if uploaders rely too much on the "30-seconds won't upset Reprise Records, not when anybody can download the whole song from [redacted]" defense.
In any case the kazoo was much more a Jesse Fuller thing than of Clapton but a "fair use" rationale would be more plausible in [[San Francisco Bay Blues]] than in either bio.
—C.W.