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According to the Student Press Law Center's Guide to Music Licensing for Broadcasting and Webcasting, there's a longstanding myth that you can use up to 30 seconds of music in any way without fear of copyright infringement. Like many myths, this idea has at least a kernel of truth behind it, however poorly understood.
The U.S. Copyright Office goes on to address the substantiality of the portion used in relation to the copyrighted work as a whole.. There are countless musical works that are 30 seconds or less in their entirety, as well as others for which 30 seconds is only a tiny and unrepresentative percentage of the whole. Nowhere in Title 17 of the U.S. Code is there any reference at all to 30 seconds as a permitted amount of use, or even as an example.