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Old 09-11-2005, 06:11   #9 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Brown
froth. this is more a case that people know they're not allowed to use a whole track on a site so they take a short sample. that then places you at the back of the prosection queue behind those using whole tracks. this has never been tested in a court of law.
In copyright law you are ok so long as you don't use a 'substantial piece' of the work, it's ok to stick a couple of pages from a book up online without permission, but not the whole book. Since there is no guidance for what constitutes a 'substantial piece' you get all these urban myths floating about
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