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Sharing a quotation
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If I have seen a quotation I would like to share with friends on AB, is it legal to do so, if I include the source.
Thanks for any advice.
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Dorothy L Sayers, 'Have His Carcase', 1932.
Or, to put it another way:
It's perfectly legal to use brief quotations from most source material. To be legally pedantic, the use of the quotation ought to fall within one of the categories listed here
http://www.ipo.gov.uk/types/copy/c-other/c-exc eption.htm
but nobody is going to sue you anyway.
Chris
Dorothy L Sayers, 'Have His Carcase', 1932.
Or, to put it another way:
It's perfectly legal to use brief quotations from most source material. To be legally pedantic, the use of the quotation ought to fall within one of the categories listed here
http://www.ipo.gov.uk/types/copy/c-other/c-exc eption.htm
but nobody is going to sue you anyway.
Chris
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