[eboard-devel] sound sampling legality

[Felipe B. <be...@se...>]

Can anyone here tell me whether it's legal to sample very short parts (0.5
to 2 secs, no lyrics sampled) of regular, commercial copyrighted music and
distribute it under GPL ?

I'm talking about samples of a single drum beat and the ticking of a clock
which I've sampled for eboard-extras pack 2 (3 separate beats from Akira's
Requiem and the clock tick effect of the introduction of Pink Floyd's "The
Gnome"). They're at most 2 seconds long each, and I've seen many samples
like this (especially from Warner Bros. and Hanna Barbera cartoons) in
ibiblio.org.

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Felipe Paulo Guazzi Bergo - Computer Science MSc Student at Unicamp
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