Permission to quote
Tom Styles
on holiday and missed any responses. Can anyone please tell me who one
approaches for permission to use a quote from a book: the publisher or the
author? And if it is the author, what happens if he or she is deceased.
Many thanks
Tom
jane R.
> Many thanks
> Tom
>< I don't know how much text you are talking about, but generally a
brief, attributed quote is considered "Fair Use" and you don't
really need permission. Professors, lecturers, reviewers do this
all the time. However, if you are reproducing a large excerpt,
you will want to check with the copyright holder. Check with the
publisher to see who that is. Of course, you would never repro-
duce someone else's text without attribution. In addition to text,
you need to obtain permission for use of diagrams, pictures,
photos, song lyrics.
The only time you don't need to obtain permission is when
the work has gone into the public domain, which I believe was
just extended. The last I heard, it was the death of the author
+ 75 years, but you can check this on the LOC web page.
J. Rubino
DEATH OF A DJ / FRUITCAKE / CHEAT THE DEVIL
The Cat Austen/Victor Cardenas mysteries from Write Way Publishing
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Can anyone please tell me who one approaches for permission to use a
quote from a book: the publisher or the
author? And if it is the author, what happens if he or she is
deceased.
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The copyright holder. However, since few if any author's allow their
home address to be published in their books the request would be sent
through the publisher who - if necessary - would ask the author /
copyright holder and negotiate a quotation fee. The quotation fee is,
of course, assuming that you are not managing to squeeze your quote
out under Fair Use.
If the author is dead and seventy years have not elapsed, and the
publisher still exists then, again, through the publisher who will
usually hold records of the estate. Over seventy years, well, who
cares?
Suggest you get a copy of the Writer's and Artist's Yearbook (AC
Black, London) which has a good copyright explanation as well as
plenty of addresses.