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.
Liven Up Your Web Site with Sample Audio Clips
By on July 29, 2008
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!
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
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…”