[DECtalk] The Dectalk site is gone, I think.

[Tony Baechler]

That's called fair use.  You can use up to 10 seconds of a song.  No, I
don't think it would count as parody.  A parody is a substantially original
work based on a previous work.  A different voice (human or otherwise)
singing the same words with the same tune is not a parody.  It would have to
be different enough to count as a derivative work.  A long time ago, there
was a series of Harry Potter parodies.  The character was named Berry
Trotter and the plot was substantially different.  Those would be new works
which would get their own copyright.

On 6/6/2013 9:35 AM, Hart Larry wrote:
> I would think DecTalk songs would either fall in catagories of song paroty,
> which were deamed legal, or some kind of experimental, especially if no
> money is exchanged.  Now useing a backing track of an orriginal song,, years
> ago I heard you could use 8bars?
> Hart
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