Copying legalities

[handcraftedweb]

My brother is a musician, and I'm making this site for him:

http://vijayanderson.com

He's starting to get reviews. See

http://vijayanderson.com/press.html

My question is can I copy review text (or an excerpt) from another website and put it on his website (legally)?

If you know an article or site that covers these issues I'd like to hear about it.

Thanks,
...Mike

[Declan1991]

To be honest, it depends on the country (good resource (http://www.wipo.int/clea/en/)), but if you credit everything like you have now you will be absolutely fine.

[tracknut]

I would have a slightly different opinion, though I am not a lawyer. I'm a photographer and certainly here in the USA if someone takes one of my images without permission and posts it on his site with a credit, that's a copyright violation. As far as I know, the same would apply for text, with the only exception being editorial use.

The easiest solution is to simply contact the author of the text, I suspect they would allow it in this kind of case, since it is good PR for them to have their review spread around.

Dave

[Declan1991]

I would have a slightly different opinion, though I am not a lawyer.Neither am I. I presumed it would be the similar to academic referencing, where as long as everything is correctly referenced and ideas are correctly attributed to those who proposed them, which would that there is no plagiarism. Stanford (http://fairuse.stanford.edu/Copyright_and_Fair_Use_Overview/chapter9/9-c.html) seems to confirm what I thought was the case that the same applies to copyright infringement. However you give a good way of being absolutely certain, contact all authors you quote or reference.

[handcraftedweb]

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Stanford (http://fairuse.stanford.edu/Copyright_and_Fair_Use_Overview/chapter9/9-c.html) seems to confirm what I thought was the case that the same applies to copyright infringement.

That Stanford article is a good resource. Thanks.

...Mike

[drudeken]

The easiest solution is to simply contact the author of the text, I suspect they would allow it in this kind of case, since it is good PR for them to have their review spread around.


This is always smart, whether you can legally take the quotes or not.