Yorick, thanks for the Aussie law articles. For the US, what you would want to research is what's known as the "fair use doctrine."
Oh, and in the US, IIRC, performing the work in public DOES create a copyright issue.
While it's a printing/publishing concern more than a RIAA concern, the biggest copyright infringers are university professors. Just think about all those photocopies you were distributed in school.
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