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?
There is no such thing as a "5%" rule in American law. Fair use is judged on a combination of subjective factors, all of which we should meet easily here.
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?
There is no such thing as a "5%" rule in American law. Fair use is judged on a combination of subjective factors, all of which we should meet easily here.
The most important is that the quoting should be done 'for evalution purposes', that is, to give the reader or listener the chance to evaluate the work as a whole by.
Regarding popular music, a few years ago I looked around on the Internet and found remarkably many parts of 26-30 seconds length, so I assume that 30 seconds has been taken as the maximum length of 'fair use' for this kind of material.
Andre Engels
Has anyone yet suggested a "Watch this user" function?
This would be a link on an IP user page, which then highlights that user's edits on Recent Changes. It might be useful for users who don't actually vandalize, but who make what appear to be mistakes, or just pop in to post a few links to their crackpot pseudoscience site. (someone recently added a paragraph on omelettes to an completely unrelated article... bizarre!)
That way we can keep an eye on their activities in RC, catch up with well-meaning beginners & clean up behind non-damaging but undesirable edits.
tarquin wrote:
It might be useful for users who don't actually vandalize, but who make what appear to be mistakes, or just pop in to post a few links to their crackpot pseudoscience site.
Or, who write really interesting and high quality stuff on topics that I'm interested in....
Sounds useful to me, but I fear feature creep.
--Jimbo
--- tarquin tarquin@planetunreal.com wrote:
Has anyone yet suggested a "Watch this user" function?
If I want to watch anyone in particular, I just bookmark their "Contributions" page.
Stephen Gilbert
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