Yep it was me and that's how it is. You can verify this if you can find a clip of something from way back by searching Piccadilly's site as their clips used to be (and still are for those older tracks) between 1min and 2 mins long (depended on how much they liked something). Then the BPI approached them and told them it was 30 secs max - and (although my memory is not up to being sure of this bit) they have to pay to use those. As far as I knew others get away with it as they aren't as big. But that doesn't square with Juno now increasing from 30 to 60 as someone says they've done. Dunno that's the story as far as I knew / remembered / made it up.
> -----Original Message----- > From: robin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 29 March 2006 15:47 > >> > >> it's a RIAA/BPI thing, > > > > You sure? I'd like to see that. I would think any sample in > excess of > > say, 3 seconds would be unauthorised unless there are explicit > > differneces set out for record shops. > > > > Meanwhile, anyone know how most other online shops get away with > > longer samples? > > Juno stick to the 30 second thing too. Some sites don't > though as you say. > > I think it was Francis that was telling us about this when we > last discussed it.
