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Re: bragging a bit/ quotes



 I, too, enjoy a good quote but have used them
sparingly in my writings. Does the spoken word immediately fall into public
domain for all to use at will and as desired?






If given in a public forum yes. If given in a private meeting, then yes
but .. I believe is the correct answer. In other words, if given in a
private meeting, you're potentially burning the source of the information
depending on the nature of the words of course. This is likely more a
problem with reporting than with garden writing. :-)






My real question, though, is
may I freely reuse a quote I find in a book or on the Internet or must I get
permission from the author, publisher the person who spoke the quote or
his/her estate before publication?




With 'Gardening Wisdom' most of the quotes came from old texts that were
long and well out of copyright (I mean 1680 is no longer covered) :-)



However when I did the "Everything Lawn Care" book, and made some quotes
from the Net as well as from some scientific papers, I did contact the
authors for permission. While I likely didn't have to do this legally, I
wanted to cover my bases by letting these folks know I was using their
stuff. In one case, I was using several bits of material from one
(classic) textbook and while there likely wasn't a legal issue, I did want
to cover my anatomy (and the publishers) by getting approvals. They got
attribution in the text as well. Permission was freely given to quote from
all material that I asked for. A few follow up articles were also penned
using this research material and the quotes used with urls, quotes and
names used to emphasize points.



My understanding is that you can freely use properly attributed quotations
to emphasize or reinforce your own writing but you can't use the quotes as
stand alone material or as substantive (the lawyers in these things define
"substantive") :-) parts of the text.



I also find that different publishers have different standards for
obtaining permissions (again likely a legal thing) and you should check any
contract you have to see what liability you're exposed to as the writer.



But as a rule of thumb - quote away with attribution.



Doug

Doug Green,

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