Re: copyright, quotes, and plagiarism.

Depending on the context. I don't remember the case, but there was one
awhile back where some newspaper published only one paragraph from a book,
and the newspper lost a lawsuit afterwards suing them for copyright
infringment. It was considered to be the "core" paragraph of the book.
Kind of an extreme case, but just be careful out there ;)

The above is kinda off topic, but I thought it was important.

On another note, anyone have any interesting ideas for the Arcane? I
haven't seen anything as of yet in 3E about them...in a campaign I used to
run, they were always a very interesting "shadowy" group running around
and manipulating things in teh background for their own plans.

Randy

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On Wed, 13 Aug 2003, Eric Collins wrote:

actually, so long as you cite your sources and keep it accurate, you can
directly quote from the products. To not quote your sources, and copy from
someone even has it's own verb. It's called "plagiarism."

1. To use and pass off (the ideas or writings of another) as one's own.
2. To appropriate for use as one's own passages or ideas from (another).

By citing your sources, you are definitely NOT plagiarizing.

If you cite too much, i.e. copying pages and pages from the book, and then
distributing it, you could violate the copyright of the book. But it would
really have to be a lot of chapters, there would have to be something in it for
the copyright holder to want to sue you, and like Leroy says, "you are not
quoting enough for it to be a problem."

-eric-



--- Leroy Van Camp III <malacoda@????????.net> wrote:
> On Friday, August 8, 2003, at 03:56 AM, PT wrote:
>
> > BTW, I'm quoting directly from the above mentioned products here; am I
> > violating something or someone?
>
> You are not quoting enough for it to be a problem.
>
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