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From: koreth@panarthea.ebay.sun.com (Steven Grimm)
Newsgroups: rec.music.misc,comp.music
Subject: Copyright question
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Date: 23 Dec 89 19:36:50 GMT
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Reply-To: koreth@panarthea.ebay.sun.com (Steven Grimm)
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What do the copyright laws have to say about transmitting small excerpts from
a piece of music?  I am pretty sure it's legal to quote a few paragraphs from
a book/magazine for review or discussion purposes; is it legal to digitize a
few seconds of music, for the same purpose?

The reason I ask is that recently, I've been talking to some people on the
net about a couple of musicians I like a lot.  I don't have a musical back-
ground, though, so I don't know the terminology to describe the music.  What
I'd like to do is play a CD into a Sparcstation here, uuencode the sound,
and mail it off to the other parties (assuming they have similar equipment
for playing back the sound.)  If it's legal to do that, I foresee many such
excerpts showing up on the net as well, since digitized sound compresses
well enough to stick into an article without overloading the net.

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