npwsol - 2:20 pm on Aug 21, 2008 (gmt 0)

Webwork - It's a thirty second clip about her and her kid. With a crap-quality Prince song in the background. I don't care how many people see it at your free theatre, that's fair use.

There is a thing similar to your written works file sharing system. I think they called them citations and quotations in college. Basically, you can take an excerpt from a book and, while giving the author credit either on page or in what I guess is called a "bibliography," blatantly use it as a part of your own work. You can paraphrase it, you can make minor modifications. You could technically use the whole thing if you wanted to, so long as you extrapolated your own ideas and theories off of it.

Maybe citations aren't the same thing here, but we are talking about a different form of media. I would venture out on a limb here and say that the song was to set the mood for the video, erego the video is about the mother and her kid. It's a completely legal derivative work. Universal can cram it.