(404) FAIR USE : SECTION 107 OF THE COPYRIGHT ACT OF 1976

As you know, we Copyright this blog, the original writing on it, anyway. Sites linked to belong to their own owners. That means that you can read us, and you can forward a post in your e-mail to someone else so they can read us too, but like us, you have to use a quote, as OK under Section 107 of the Copyright Act of 1976.

And as you know, if you've been reading us from our early blogging days in 2007 and 2008, we were not too fast to include YouTube videos on our blog, because we weren't sure what the law was going to be about the use of videos. As we go back to old posts and videos to refresh or delete them, we see how we learned as we went. We accept that some videos will be taken down for various reasons, including claims of Copyright, but that most of them are full song samples.

We've noticed that a Copyright Disclaimer like this one appears on many YouTube station accounts:

"Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use."

We consider this blog to be a Music History blog, and we really appreciate being able to link to other sites and to YouTube videos. As always, if we link to you and you don't want us to, just get in touch and let us know and we'll take the link down.

Thanks for reading us!

Wes Bryan and Christine Trzyna