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- Subject: Re: Help with Quoted Material
- Message-ID: <1992Jul22.171154.1@eagle.wesleyan.edu>
- From: mschmitt@eagle.wesleyan.edu
- Date: 22 Jul 92 17:11:54 EDT
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- In article <cass8806.96@elan.glassboro.edu>, cass8806@elan.glassboro.edu (KYLE CASSIDY) writes:
- >
- > 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.
- >
- Okay, suppose I want to quote something on a poster in a story. Would
- the phrase found on that poster be considered copyrighted, or not? Let me
- guess, it depends on whether it's a common phrase, right?
-
- Matt Schmitt
- mschmitt@eagle.wesleyan.edu
- "Aspiring SF writer and hopeless dreamer"
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