Re: song lyrics, quotations and art

I think this is the area in the Australian law which sets a minimum or quantitative threshold within which one can be assured that what one is doing constitutes dealing fairly with the work. As I said earlier on, it is also still possible to exceed these minima and agrgue fair dealing, as I understand the Australian statute... Cheers,
Bernard Katz, former head, Special Collections and Library Development

                            McLaughlin Library, University of Guelph     author, descriptive bibliog. of L.M. Montgomery's books (in progress)     and former chair, Ontario Library Association Copyright Task Force

On Thu, 23 Feb 2006, tja[_at_]mds.rmit.edu.au wrote:

> 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
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> Subject: [CNI-(C)] Re: song lyrics, quotations and art
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> 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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