RE: Re: song lyrics, quotations and art

Australia is very clear about this. Its 1 chapter, 10% of the pages whichever is larger for a book. If the work is in digital form, it is 10% of the text (presumably bytes unless text extraction is performed).

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From: CNI-COPYRIGHT -- Copyright & Intellectual Property
[mailto:CNI-COPYRIGHT[_at_]cni.org] On Behalf Of Carol Busby
Sent: Friday, 17 February 2006 1:56 PM
To: CNI-COPYRIGHT -- Copyright & Intellectual Property
Subject: [CNI-(C)] Re: song lyrics, quotations and art


The problem with a 10% rule exists for writing too.  How much of War and
Peace is 10%?  It could be a number of words but again, it could be one
sentence that says it all.  Can you take, for example, "It was the best of
times. It was the worst of times." and claim that it was only a minor part
of A Tale of Two Cities?  One paragraph may be the key to an entire novel.

And aside from Thomas Kincaid, there are other kinds of art industries --
postcards, greeting cards etc.  Go to the Licensing Show in NY and there are
huge exhibits of people who only represent art and artists.  Some of it's
fine art; some isn't but it's definitely an industry -- Thomas Kincaid and
Wyland aside.

Carol Busby
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