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aspen 185 points ago +185 / -0

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0v3rKill 39 points ago +39 / -0

Yup, look up the "fair use" act.

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GAGASays -6 points ago +1 / -7

No. That's not how that works.

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UTPatriot 5 points ago +5 / -0

Ok, ill listen. How does it work?

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GAGASays 2 points ago +2 / -0

I love the downvotes from people who don't know any better.

There is no arbitrary length where it is blanket "OK" to use copyrighted music. Not 6 seconds, not 10 seconds, not 30 seconds. That's not how fair use works. There's also no "delete in 24 hours" rule that was commonly spread in the 1990s.

Here's a good explanation: https://smallbusiness.chron.com/copyright-laws-30-seconds-music-61149.html

Fair use has a lot of elements - is the copyrighted material used for "such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research"?

https://www.copyright.gov/fair-use/more-info.html

You can use a substantial part of a copyrighted work and have it be fairuse (see some long form YouTube movie reviews using a lot of footage).

But you can't just willy nilly use 10 seconds of a song in your YouTube video or podcast.

Carpe Donktum's use, I would argue, is fair use. But not because of the length of the audio at all.

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