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- From: cass8806@elan.glassboro.edu (KYLE CASSIDY)
- Subject: Re: Help with Quoted Material
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- Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 17:30:48 GMT
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- In article <1649@hydra.bucknell.edu> norbeck@castor.cs.bucknell.edu (nancy norbeck `93) writes:
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- >I'm working on a book (still mostly in the idea stage) but there
- >is a quote I'd like to use by having a character say it. I am
- >presently trying to find out who said it in the first place (if I
- >can't find out I won't use it) but I'd like to know how to attribute
- >it. Is it enough to just have the character say "As so-and-so said"
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- you don't have to credit anybody as long as the phrase is not copywrited.
- you can say. you can also quote things that are in the public domain without
- worrying -- you can say "four score and seven years ago" all you want
- without ever bothering to mention presiden lincoln. things that people say
- are not usually copyrighted (or indeed copywriteable) -- if this were true,
- it would be nearly impossible to write a book at all. you cannot quote
- copywrited material (such as a poem) without attributing it.
-
- >Along the same lines, there are some songs that have given me a lot
- >of inspiration for this story and would make very good quotes as
- >well. I would probably have the character be listening to the radio
-
- if you don't know who wrote the song, a phone call to the record company is
- all that you need, although it might be easier to look first on the record
- and see who is credited with it there -- though this is not always reliable (
- Led Zepplin for example, did not write "Whole Lotta Love" but they never
- bothered to mention this fact on the album) you do need the music publishers
- permission, in writing, and you do need to mention this in the frontispiece
- of your book.
-