Can i quote someone in my book

As I proceeded to acquire permissions to use some passages from other writers who are loved and emulated by characters in the story, the holders of the rights were difficult or impossible to deal with and sought exorbitant fees. Pointing out how my use among a likely very limited readership would praise and promote the work did not help. I am going to delete the passages and the attribution and just make up fictitious writers and prose or poetry. The bookmark art would include a one sentence famous interview quote on themes: reading, education, creativity.

I include the source of the quote, note some people still living. Do you think there would be a problem? Thank you for your question. Be sure to include the name of the person who said the quote and provide enough information for people to be able to find the original quote.

Thank you so much for your site! Eg, I have a chapter on TV and media, with my main point being that there are many risks we need to consider and protect our children against these days. These authors are non-fiction, often physicians or researchers. My style is somewhat journalistic. So my questions are: 1. Does my non-fiction style help with the fair use argument?

It is not a research paper and if I managed to publish it would be a commercial venture, not helping my case obviously 2. Is it equally dangerous to quote from TEDTalks etc? Finally, is it safe to quote from organisations such as the American Academy of Paediatrics e. However I would greatly appreciate any thoughts you could give me on my situation and questions if possible!!

Since we are not lawyers, we cannot offer any legal advice. We would recommend contacting a lawyer with experience in the publishing industry.

I am a freelance writer and I am writing an article for a trade magazine. I used a public quote from a Congressman that was published on the Internet on a number of websites.

Is it o. Do I get permission directly from the Congressman? Hi, Carlea— Great question? The trade magazine for which you are writing the article should have policies and guidelines about this. We recommend you check with them for how they would like you to handle this.

I was pretty pleased to find this page. I wanted to thank you for your time just for this fantastic read!! I definitely liked every little bit of it and I have you saved as a favorite to look at new things in your website. I want to use well-known and often repeated quotes usually from famous people at the beginning of the Chapters of my book but the editor is asking if I have permission and wants me to eliminate them.

Is there a place I can verify it is okay to use certain quotes? You will have to research each quote to find out if the work is in the public domain. Hope this helps! I have summarized an episode of a s TV show in a non-fiction book set for publication. Does a writer typically need permission for a summary of this nature when nothing is quoted directly from the episode? We are not lawyers, so we cannot offer legal advice. We would recommend speaking with an attorney who specializes in copyright.

If linking to a quote is legal, would something like jumbling the quote incomprehensibly or putting words into a word search qualify as linking? Can I be sued for such a non-quotational batch of meaningful keywords? Hi What if I want to summarise research papers as reference for my soon to be published book for profit? Will citations alone do, or should I get permission….

I am not using quotes. We would recommend consulting a lawyer with experience in the publishing industry. Do you have to have permission to use a three word quote said by someone Estee Lauder? We would recommend speaking with an attorney who specializes in copyright law.

A journal of sorts. What would be the regulations for this if I were to use quotes from Japanese Animation characters anime and cite the show, episodes, and character as well as the original author? But I am hoping to get this novel published commercially. So my question is about common practice: if I do succeed in getting it published, does a publisher usually take on the task of getting permission or does the author do it even in that case?

Thank you. I authored my own quotes and in fact, i made an instagram account for it. Here comes my friend who recently launched his website pushed me to make it a quote book. Can you give me tips and advises to make and realize our project? But the first step is to create the manuscript before anything else can happen! First of all I want to say awesoome blog! I was interested to find out how you center yourself and clear your head prior to writing. I do enjoy writing however it just seems like the first 10 tto 15 minutes are generally wasted just trying to figure out how to begin.

Any ideas or tips? Appreciate it! Best practice is to use photos or images that are public domain, licensed creative commons, stock images, or belong to you. Quotes from famous people if they are used as a book title or as a majority of the book contents. To quote or reference the title or author of a work such as books, poems, movies, TV shows or songs.

To link to something online from your website, blog, book or other publication. To quote books or other works published before For news stories or scientific studies.

Shorter quotes, references and paraphrasing is usually ok without permission. Copying large amounts of a story or study, however, may require permission from the writer or publisher. Recipes although this falls into a bit of a gray area — for more info read this article by attorney Sara F. To quote scriptures from Bibles published before see section below. Quoting from the Bible. Is that okay?? I did and sought permission.

The price of using those lines was way too expensive for me, so I deleted the lines. For my other book,. Too much trouble for me, so I deleted it and simply called it a princess watch in my book. Always best to try and seek permission beforehand.

Too much trouble to use some copyrighted work, particularly song lyrics. I poetry by Yeats and Dickinson that was in the public domain. They confirmed the early versions of verse I used were public domain. When I think of fair use, I really think of referring to a thing, such as a play or television show. Sounds like that can get sticky very quickly with a brand, such as Disney. My first draft of one novel quoted parts of The Gambler, sung by Kenny Rogers.

I discovered the song was written by someone else and, yes, the cost was prohibitive. Free publicity. Mark, That is an argument used by a lot of online publications when trying to convince a writer to give them their content for free.

Thanks for sharing this post, and for the links included so I can read further. This is such great information. But I was so sure I could navigate the troubled waters, I spent a considerable amount of time and finally found the copyright holder and paid for permission to use the lyrics. It was expensive, but I was convinced I needed the lyrics. It took a couple of months to get everything settled.

Just before my publisher was ready to go to print, I noticed the permission was just for the U. Not wanting to limit the distribution of the book, and not willing to wait to get the international copyright permission, I rewrote the section of the book and removed the lyrics.

Fortunately, the copyright holder refunded most of my payment. However, I learned a valuable lesson. If I decide to use copyrighted material in the future, at least I have a little experience.

But now I know why everybody was warning me against it. Thank you for the information, Steve. We have to be so careful. Thank you! Your publisher…the one publishing your book…will have their own set of rules to follow with regard to getting permissions.

The publisher of the material you want to quote may or may not be your publisher. If your book is published by XYZ you want them to protect your material from plagiarists and unapproved use.

And you probably would like them to charge something for the use of your material. Thanks for sharing this.

Most of the uses are brief snippets and in some cases just titles but good to have a better idea of where the lines are. The song title is fine. No permission needed. But the lyrics? Another issue all together. I checked in my Zondervan version of the NIV and it says up to words without permission—back then.

However on the Zondervan website s it says words. I think a good search on the web will reveal what needs permission. Quoting a Bible translation is a little different. As you indicated, each translation has a different set of rules for quotations. It is unlikely that a novel would exceed quoting verses of a particular translation. Oh, excellent.

The article on Bible quotations earlier gave me the error message. It finally loaded. It and I could be wrong, ok I am often wrong that there is some type of copyright competition. Miguel Roig, Ph. However, extensive quoting of text from a copyrighted source can constitute copyright infringement, whether the appropriated text is properly enclosed in quotation marks or correctly paraphrased, even if a citation is provided according to established scholarly conventions.

Obviously, the same applies if the material is plagiarized outright.