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They also want online music stores to cough up fees for 30-second song previews. Surely such previews fall under "fair use"? They are excerpts of a larger wor
by jcl 17y ago
They also want online music stores to cough up fees for 30-second song previews.
Surely such previews fall under "fair use"? They are excerpts of a larger work, unusable except to give an idea of how the whole piece sounds. And they don't decrease the value of the author's work -- if anything, they increase it.
It sounds like the publishers are trying to make a short-term gain while crippling their industry in the long run.
- DarkShikari 17y agoSurely such previews fall under "fair use"? The music industry has made it abundantly clear for almost 30 years (since the early days of tapes, really) that they believe fair use does not actually exist.