[stylist] Critiquing question- quoting other sources

[loristay at aol.com]

There is something called "Fair Use," which means you can quote short passages from other authors' work, as long as you attribute it.  But you can't use very long passages without permission from the author or publisher.
Lori



-----Original Message-----
From: Barbara Hammel <poetlori8 at msn.com>
To: Writer's Division Mailing List <stylist at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Sat, Nov 3, 2012 9:36 pm
Subject: Re: [stylist] Critiquing question- quoting other sources


I'm hoping there's someone else here who could answer that more quickly, but 
I'd bet that Lori knows the answer to that.
Barbara




Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance. -- Carl Sandburg
-----Original Message----- 
From: Robert Leslie Newman
Sent: Saturday, November 03, 2012 3:12 PM
To: writers nfb
Subject: [stylist] Critiquing question- quoting other sources

Hey you all, need your input:



Bob Gardner, one of our members who is not on STYLIST has a question for us.
he is doing a critique of a draft of a book, this is for a person who is
paying us for this service --- recall our Sept. up to the end of December
fund raiser, our critique service?



Here is what he writes:



I have a question.  The author quotes many long passages from other articles
and books in her manuscript.  I have no experience with the legalities of
doing that.  Do you know how much freedom a writer has to quote material
from other sources?  Is permission required from someone?  Is there someone
within the Writers' Division who is knowledgeable on this?







Robert Leslie Newman

Personal Website-

Adjustment To Blindness And Visual impairment

http//www.thoughtprovoker.info

NFB Writers' Division, president

http://www.nfb-writers-division.net

Chair of the NFB Communications Committee



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