Ask HN: Legality of serving song samples?

I'm planning to knock up a weekend project but before I do I need to know what, if any, legal issues there are with serving 30 second song samples from a website (streaming from S3).

I've had a look online but I've turned up nada so far. Any help is greatly appreciated.

jacquesm 16y

I'm doing the same on one of my sites, the rules that I dug up when I built it were:

  - 30 seconds max (you already got that)

  - mono

  - reduced in bitrate

I also fade the samples in and out at the beginning and the end to make the transition a bit nicer.

Jim_NeathOP16y

Awesome. Cheers.

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