Thanks again for Dylan suggestions

[Bekah]

The term "fair use"  is deliberately unclear in copyright law.  And in this case there's money being made - hopefully.    Bottom line, fair use  - or any use of copyrighted material,  is  up to the copyright owner.   

Bekah


On Jul 5, 2011, at 2:28 PM, Robert Mahnke wrote:

> I don't know copyright law, but I find it bizarre that quote a couplet or quatrain or some song lines wouldn't be considered fair use.
> 
> On Sun, Jul 3, 2011 at 6:18 AM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
> I don't know music but I do know that "Tangled Up In Blue"
> is about Bobby and Joni Mitchell, who did BLUE (an album).
>  
> Joni is one of the toughest protectors of her song lines around.
> Almost never gives permission to use.....we all knew that a
> couplet (or quatrain) from a Mitchell song was in the reading copy
> of Gravity's Rainbow but is not in the published book.
>  
> I know of a whole first printing of a decent novel which a publishing house
> had to 'recall", never ship, pulp, because permision for some song lines
> were not gotten and she learned and demanded it.
>  
> She's a fierce artist..........
>  
> 
>  
> 
> From: "edmoorester at gmail.com" <edmoorester at gmail.com>
> To: pynchon-l at waste.org
> Sent: Sun, July 3, 2011 1:02:04 AM
> Subject: Thanks again for Dylan suggestions
> 
> Joe Allonby wrote: 
> 
> "Try "Tangled Up in Blue". It's a nice exercise for the major-sus4-sus2 
> figure that pops up in a lot of songs and the narrative makes it 
> easier to remember the lyrics." 
> 
> I got hooked on Lennon's "Happy Xmas" which has a similar major 
> -sus4-sus2 pattern and "Tangled up in Blue" will work nicely esp 
> because I learned a lot of those chords already. . cool! 
> 
> 
> "Cool thing about "Hurricane": the opening lines read like stage 
> directions in a play. Present tense. Describing the action of the 
> characters and setting the scene. Pistol shots ring out...Enter Patty 
> Ballantine from the other hall... It's an interesting technique." 
> 
> Huh. . .it is cool just to look at how Dylan sets up the story. 
> 
> A lot of times exposition in movies esp bore me to tears 
> but because I only watch dvds (hate paying 9 bucks in theaters) 
> I have learned the fast forward button with captioning! 
> 
> ed
>