This is true but put yourself in the shoes of an artist, say John Denver. He'd be "delighted" if you liked his song enough to record it and send copies to all your friends.

Right now I reckon he'd settle for an aircraft fuel value that wasn't stiff and in an awkward position ...

Both my wife and myself have had to research international copyright law at various times. It's all amazingly similar (well, not so amazingly, really). The law says acknowledge, but for single lines or partial lines there is usually a deliberate grey area. The safest thing to do from both the ethical and the legal point of view is to acknowledge. Unless you are quoting wholesale, however, no one would quibble in a forum like this.

The big thing is that you put quotes around it or otherwise acknowledge that you aren't claiming it as your own work. Which I think we all do!


The idiot also known as Capfka ...