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Raya Kuzyk

Liven Up Your Web Site with Sample Audio Clips
July 29, 2008

Something I learned at Digipalooza’s Publisher Roundtable, in which reps from BBC Audiobooks America, Books on Tape, Brilliance Audio, HarperCollins Publishers, and John Wiley & Sons participated: You can legally excerpt up to three minutes of any audio clip. So that, say, jazzing up your site with this exactly-three-minute-long clip of the LJ Best Seller Three Cups of Tea (Tantor Media), here narrated by Audie Award finalist Patrick Landor, would be perfectly kosher.

Posted by Raya Kuzyk on July 29, 2008 | Comments (3)

Industries: Audio Reviews

August 1, 2008
In response to: Liven Up Your Web Site with Sample Audio Clips
pamela taylor commented:

Thank you! I am working up my first web page for my high school and elementary lbraries and I will take this idea and use it. I appreciate your sharing!

August 12, 2008
In response to: Liven Up Your Web Site with Sample Audio Clips
Ray commented:

No criticism but is there a references to something more substantive, than "I heard at a meeting" so it must be true. Maybe an ALA fair-use guideline or something else to refer to

August 13, 2008
In response to: Liven Up Your Web Site with Sample Audio Clips
Raya Kuzyk, LJ commented:

Section 4.2.1 of the Fair Use Guidelines for Educational Multimedia, guidelines rooted in the “fair use” clause of the 1976 Copyright Law and issued by a House of Representatives subcommittee in 1996: “Up to 10% or 3 minutes, whichever is less, in the aggregate of a copyrighted motion media work may be reproduced or otherwise incorporated as part of a multimedia project…”