On 11/15/05, Stephen Bain stephen.bain@gmail.com wrote:
IANAL and all that, but as long as we are not replicating chunks of the chart verbatim, merely stating that so-and-so song reached X position on the chart, then there won't be any problems. We're not possibly infringing any copyrights by simply stating what they ranked the song as. However, if we had an article which listed the top forty for a particular week, or something, that would not be ok.
I think extensive charts or graphs of Billboard chart position would also be dubious. A passing mention is one thing, compiling voluminous data of Billboard chart positions another. I'm thinking about the week-by-week chart positions once found in the [[Ashlee Simpson]] article, among others.
-Matt