It appears that some people are posting snippets of music from artists
who haven't been dead yet for 50 years, the main criteria for public
domain stuff in Canada.
Just for the record:
The Canadian Copyright Act (http://www.cb-cda.gc.ca/info/act-e.html)
states "Fair dealing for the purpose of research or private study does
not infringe copyright". The wikipedia article on '"fair dealing" at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_dealing#Fair_dealing_in_Canada gives
some good guidelines"
"...six principal criteria for evaluating fair dealing.
1. *The Purpose of the Dealing* Is it for research, private study,
criticism, review or news reporting? It expresses that "these
allowable purposes should not be given a restrictive
interpretation or this could result in the undue restriction of
users' rights."
Indeed, it seems the Copyright Act spends most of its time dealing with
what *is not* an infringement. Back to wikipedia:
* " 3. The Amount of the Dealing* How much of the work was used? What
was the importance of the infringed work? Quoting trivial amounts may
alone sufficiently establish fair dealing. In some cases even quoting
the entire work may be fair dealing."
Ok, enough.. I just wanted to touch on this in a public forum... I think
using snippets of works, and posting them, to learn a computer program
is "fair dealing." I won't be losing any sleep over it.
Cheers,
Mike
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