| Copyright Loophole for Legal File Sharing? Here is an idea for legally file sharing: Fair Use.
More specifically, "a quotation from copyrighted material when the excerpt is used for teaching, research, news reporting, comment, criticism or parody."
(»www.riaa.com/issues/copyright/laws.asp)
For example, a 3 minute song distributed over the internet from one location may violate the copyright law.
But what about a 3 minute song divided into 3 second clips, accompanied by a news report, comment, or criticism, distributed from 60 different locations?
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noogoo vs. the copyright lawhttp://noogoo.blogspot.com/ |
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| Who in their right mind is going to split up a song into 3 second clips? :P |
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| reply to noogoo
It all gets down to the issue of intent. The fair use right you describe is intended to allow short sections of copyrighted works to accompany articles about the particular work. What you are proposing violates the intent of the law and if done on a large scale and brought to trial would most likely be found in violation. |
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