>>FWIW, one of the fair use criteria is how much of the work is used. Singing one line of a song probably qualifies; playing the whole song almost certainly doesn't.
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>>Tamar
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>OK, I did a little research on the topic.
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>The song "Eye of the Tiger" clocks in at 4:06. About 4:05 longer than it should have been, but in fairness, most 80's rock (save for Rush) sucked anyway
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>I just watched the video of Kim Davis and Huckabee. They played about 42 seconds of it (which makes me wonder if they were making a suggestion for a shorter version).
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>And then it took another 42 seconds for this juggernaut of an intellectual to stop crying.. (Though I'll say this, Hillary Clinton could take lessons from Kim Davis on how to cry)
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>And then you have a 2 minute incoherent speech by Davis.
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>So my take on this is that Survivor is upset because they were the opening act for a fool. :)

42 seconds out of 246 is 17%. That's certainly in the questionable range for fair use. If you quoted 17% of a book, you'd almost surely lose a fair use case.

Tamar