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From: boswell@rex.cs.tulane.edu (Albert Boswell)
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Subject: Re: Copyright question
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Date: 6 Jan 90 14:52:01 GMT
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In article <35021@grapevine.uucp> koreth@panarthea.ebay.sun.com (Steven Grimm) writes:
>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.
>
    It seem to my that when copies of records or CDs are made using
    ordinary magnetic tape, some quality of the music is lost and
    the result is a less than authenic reproduction.  I've never
    seen anything wrong in this and besides, tape quality seems to
    diminish rather quickly in comparison to originals.

    However, when the discussion involves the extraction and re-
    production of exact digital data files, the situation is quite
    different obviously. If the equipment of which you speak is
    capable of transfering  this data to some digital medium which
    can then be distributed -- you can believe it will happen and
    then there's a problem.

    Interesting question -- and one that should be discussed more
    often I think - ETHICAL USE OF COMPUTERS!!!!!

    Anyone else ?????

-AB