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    A big problem here is that "fair use" is a set of guidelines for a court rather than a solid and dependable set of rules. So unless a court has ruled the answer to the question "is this fair use" is can only be somewhere between "probably" and "probably not". Commented Oct 26, 2020 at 11:57
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    Bar of music - "24. (music) A vertical line across a musical staff dividing written music into sections, typically of equal durational value. Synonym: measure". 25. (music) One of those musical sections. Commented Oct 26, 2020 at 19:18
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    But is its use here idiomatic (not a rhetorical question)? Commented Oct 26, 2020 at 19:21
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    @PeterMortensen yes, it's idiomatic. In this case it's sense 25, not 24. For example, the first two bars of Lennon and McCartney's Yesterday correspond to the lyrics "Yesterday, all my troubles seemed so...." (However, it is possible to change the length of a bar, usually by a factor of two, without changing the sound of the piece, so for music that is not written down people may reasonably disagree about the length of one bar.)
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    Commented Oct 26, 2020 at 21:57
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    @PeterMortensen See reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/2mgiez/took_me_a_while Commented Oct 26, 2020 at 23:11