At 2:36 PM -0700 9/8/05, Chuck Israels wrote:
I don't know what the limit is, but I always understood that there was a certain length of quote that went over the line into infringement. I have in my faulty memory 4 measures for popular songs, but that doesn't seem too practical to me.

Doesn't appear in the copyright law nor in the Fair Use Guidelines. I think this is just an urban legend, like mailing yourself a copy of your song rather than registering it properly.

John


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