delyric wants to teach language with lyrics.. to turn great songs into great language teachers.. what if we could use the best parts of the worlds most greatest songs, and do it legally? maybe we can..

[edit] fair use

educationally purposed extracts of popular songs, such as well-known popular refrains, can be legal to work with under doctrine of "fair use".

citing samples of lyrics and/or performances is also legal when distribution of such intends to motivate sale of complete versions to the public.. less commercial and more interesting, from a multicultural perspective is to host citage as an arena for commentary:

[edit] commentary

current interpretation of fair use law allows public commentary to cited excerpts of copyright properties.. wixi enables multilingual commentary, which means commentary from multiple cultural perspectives.. enabling public commentary may be citage key point of fair use

[edit] educational

legally, a "fair use" of a copyright excerpt usually has an educational purpose

[edit] tranformative

another qualification of legal "fair use" is a "tranformative" use, or a use that was not intended or currently exploited by copyright owner.. delyric citage transforms popular parts of popular songs into language teachers..

"citage" can legally permit considerable free development of delyric method, as outstanding refrains are more widely known than complete sets of lyrics.

twext translation and visualizations of fair-use extracts from well-known popular songs can serve the public with fun, free, lyric language tools.

[edit] reconstructivismo

delyric citage can deconstruct music culture, fracturing bits into recontructible resources freely available to public creativity, (when intent is educational and promotional..)

[edit] citage

value is added by creating meaningful links between resources, (as opposed to interpreting value as stored primarily within the resources themselves)..

[edit] example

example of citage, sans critical "fair use" commentary, now visible.. updating soon to host commentary..