Re: bragging a bit/ quotes

**"Peter Loewer" t*@earthlink.net**

GWL: You cannot take a quote from poetry or literature unless it's in the
public domain and that is a problem right now with the way congress muddled
up the law by extending rights to the Disney Corp. You will find that most
publishers--if they know about quotes--will not let you use one younger than
75 years ago. If you want to use a quote you must make a legitmate effort
(keep records) to find the current right's holder (often the last publisher)
and then pay a fee, which is usually not that much. I used many such poetry
quotes in "The Evening Garden," and the most I paid was $25.00 for using
some lines from Edna St. Vincent Millay.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Carol Wallace, Ph.D." <gardenwriter@mindspring.com>
To: "Garden Writers -- GWL -- The Garden Writers Forum"
<gardenwriters@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2003 12:11 AM
Subject: Re: [GWL] bragging a bit/ quotes

> The spoken word is "free" - copyright law protects anything that is
> "fixed in a medium" - which means written down, committed to paper or
> vinyl, tape, etc. As far as quotes from the Internet - e-mails and
> postings, the general rulings seem to protect the writer - as if being
> fixed in the ether has been ruled the same as fixed on paper or in a book.
>
> However, quoting a short bit of something and giving appropriate
> attribution is no different on the Internet than in writing.  I tend to
> use a ten line rule of thumb when talking about long articles and books.
> But a lot depends on how much of the original work you are using. Ten
> lines of a 10 line post would obviously be too much. You never want to
> quite so much that the reader has little incentive to seek out the
> original work.
> Carol
>
> >> I have a related question. 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? 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?
> >
>
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