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Q&A Can I can legally use these song lyrics as book/chapter names?

This topic has been discussed--but please advise me on this particular test case. The title of the fiction novel is "Shorter of Breath" -- a reference to a lyric in Pink Floyd's "Time." Chapter n...

2 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by user1799848‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by System‭

#3: Attribution notice added by user avatar System‭ · 2019-12-08T06:20:43Z (almost 5 years ago)
Source: https://writers.stackexchange.com/q/27568
License name: CC BY-SA 3.0
License URL: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
#2: Initial revision by user avatar user1799848‭ · 2019-12-08T06:20:43Z (almost 5 years ago)
This topic has been discussed--but please advise me on this particular test case.

The title of the fiction novel is "Shorter of Breath" -- a reference to a lyric in Pink Floyd's "Time."

Chapter names have song lyrics and titles, such as 3: Look up to the skies and see 4: I understand about indecision  
7: And if you listen very hard  
8: Someone saved my life tonight

One of the subplots of this very silly story is a time-traveling group of novel characters who become music critic terrorists and decide to remove Starship's "We built this city" from history by attacking the band members in 1985. The band name and song are referred to, and occasionally quoted:

"A fictional character named Mucho from a Pynchon novel waved his beer and ranted to the assembly, “‘Corporation games!' 'Listen to the radio!’ How long will we have to accept this profanation!”"

How much of this should I remove / change / tweak / abandon? Thank you in advance.

#1: Imported from external source by user avatar System‭ · 2017-04-16T12:30:48Z (over 7 years ago)
Original score: 2