User talk:ScribeOfTheNile

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Thanks for that. :) ScribeOfTheNile 05:20, Sep 17, 2004 (UTC)

Contents 1 Reverting 2 Victoria 3 Double redirect cleanup award 4 APT James 5 sound excerpts and copyright

Reverting

Oh, it's a special feature for Administrators. ;-) When we revert a page, the message is automatically added. Johnleemk | Talk 14:55, 21 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Victoria

No worries. If you're in Victoria, you might be interested in Wikipedia:WikiProject Melbourne. You can take photos of things, write about where you live, create historical articles. Nothing but fun! Josh Parris ✉ 07:53, 14 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Double redirect cleanup award

APT James

Thanks for the clean up - I have no idea how that got into the article. I wonder what I (unknowingly) clicked on... - Guettarda 06:18, 25 September 2005 (UTC)

sound excerpts and copyright

Hi Michael I notice that you're knowledgable about copyright. Can you help me in connection with the sound excerpt I've used at the top of Johann Sebastian Bach? The wording of the tag has changed, and urges me to update the tag. I'm confused. Background: the owner of the recording company (who's a performer on the recording as well) wants the full track to be used here, and will do anything I want in that respect (he's a friend of mine).

More importantly, I wonder whether you'd be kind enough to look at my advice to others with respect to using ≤ 30 second excerpts of copyrighted music without permission: Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Composers#Guidelines for using sound excerpts. Is it good advice? What tag should uploaders be inserting? Tony 02:52, 23 October 2005 (UTC)

Thanks, Michael! Tony 16:07, 23 October 2005 (UTC)

Hi Michael. I've thought further about your suggestion concerning the tag, and it seems to me to be ideal for the 'fair use without permission' audio excerpts, rather than where the owner has given permission for whatever use we want to make of it. (This is the case of the excerpt at the top of Johann Sebastian Bach, and I've used the whole track.) So I still need to identify an appropriate tag for this!—it's going to be a rare exception, I suspect, because it's very hard to get permission to use full tracks.

I'm about to advise at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Composers#Guidelines for using sound excerpts that the Template:Music sample be used for all '30-second no permission' excerpts. I hope that's correct. By the way, I think there's a potentially serious error in the text of that tag:

The sample is short in relation to the overall length of the recorded work and is of an inferior quality to the original recording.

Shouldn't 'work' be 'track'? Classical works can be over an hour long, comprising several tracks. This appears to invite contributors to quote more than 30 seconds' worth of music. And I guess 'inferior quality' could refer to the very slight degradation arising from the translation through MP3 to ogg; it would hold up in court, I hope.

Tony 05:00, 24 October 2005 (UTC)

Thx, Michael. I've updated the advice at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Composers#Guidelines for using sound excerpts accordingly, and changed the tag at Bach. I've also changed the text of the Template:Music sample. The only unresolved issue now is whether a new tag will have to be created when total permission is granted. Perhaps we'll see what happens when the article becomes a FAC. Tony 10:22, 24 October 2005 (UTC)