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Originally posted by Timber Loftis:
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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When I taught at tertiary institutions, I would get the students to buy the textbooks rather than photocopy anothers words. for recordings we used students own songs, or purchased charts.