It allowed limited replication of snippets of music, video and text, and it gave teachers the right to photocopy certain materials without having to pay hefty fees to publishers.
It does seem likely that there will be a fair lot of junk to sift through to track down any future gems — but at least your hunt won't require multiple minutes of time per song, with snippets on Spawnsong limited to a max of 42 seconds.
Whereas she used to play a song in its entirety, she is now limited to 20- or 30-second snippets.
After all, if you want to share a snippet of text on Twitter, you're limited to 140 characters, which makes tweeting and commenting on news articles difficult.
By piecing together snippets of fear and re-running the tracks in our heads, we become limited by our beliefs.
Yet despite the huge public fascination, the three major networks limited their coverage to an hour a night, a prime-time patchwork of highlight reels, catchup snippets of live speeches, and commentary.
Sony says hundreds of videos are available, but among the limited selection shown on the in-store sets are short how-to cooking videos, joke-a-day segments, commentary from firefighters, random clips from overseas television and animated shows; in short, the same random assortment of snippets you would find browsing through many online video sites.
A federal appeals court rejected Apple's petition in February, but at the same time appeared to support the company's efforts to limit the monitor's reach, suggesting that resistance was not entirely futile.Beyond such snippets, little is known about the process.
To determine the optimal duration of snippets, localization error as a function of snippet duration was plotted.
A couple of years ago, there seemed to be no upper limit to the sale — for a couple of euros, or $3 to $4 — of snippets of music that blast out of cellphones.
