If you include a music clip as part of a research presentation for fellow classmates during a university lecture, then copyright law:

will require that you pay compensation to the original creator of the music before you are allowed to use the clip in your presentation. 

will require that you contact the original creator of the music and ask permission to use the clip as part of your research presentation. 

will allow reproduction of the music during the presentation without the original creator’s permission, based on the ‘fair use’ principle.  

will prohibit you to do so, as you will be breaking the law, specifically the South African Copyright Act No 98 of 1978.

In general, the correct answer would be that copyright law will require that you contact the original creator of the music and ask permission to use the clip as part of your research presentation. However, the specific answer would depend on the country's copyright laws. In the case of South Africa, the answer would be that it would prohibit you to do so, as you would be breaking the law, specifically the South African Copyright Act No 98 of 1978.