The Zellers Family wrote:
I was writing a Wikipedia entry for Virgil Fox (the organist) and I wanted to quote his introduction to the Bach Toccata and Fugue in Dm (BWV565) from the album "Heavy Organ" because I thought that it nicely summed up his approach to music (especially as constrasted with that if E. Power Biggs), but I didn't want to run afoul of the copyright police, so I thought I'd ask here first.
Assuming the article isn't just this quote (which I'm sure it isn't), there is no problem with this at all. This is a paradigm case of simple and perfectly acceptable "fair use" that is going to be fair use for just about any conceivable re-use of our material.
I would argue that it would fall under any reasonable definition of fair use, but I'd like to get a second opinion before I cause any trouble.
Yes, it's fine.
Just for future reference, assuming quoting the text is permissible, where would attaching an MP3 of that introduction fall? I don't think it is worth it in this case, but I was just wondering where the edges are.
I think that questions like this are hard to answer a priori -- it just depends on the full context of what we're doing in any given case. As you say, in this case, it doesn't seem particularly on-point ("worth it") to include it, but in other cases, I think that including it would be valid.
--Jimbo