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« on: April 23, 2012, 11:07:38 AM »
Hey all!

I'm blanking here... if I find a really good quote in an article, can I use the same quote in my piece (as long as it's sighted in the source page)? Or, do I have to get permission from the writer who originally got the quote.  Thanks
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« Reply #1 on: April 23, 2012, 10:10:12 PM »
Although borrowing quotes from one spot to another is fairly common, it can be problematic if the first place actually misquoted the person. I've seen experts who've complained about being misquoted and then having that repeated over and over. So you don't so much need permissions as it helps to get confirmation.
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« Reply #2 on: April 23, 2012, 10:12:07 PM »
In terms of PERMISSION...if the quote is a substantial (or pivotal) part of the original article, then you could get in copyright trouble for copying it without permission (not from the person quoted but from the publication). Attributing it (by the way) doesn't help...if it's a substantial part of the original article or if it was THE part that made the original article have value to the writer, then copying it could be an issue.
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« Reply #3 on: April 27, 2012, 09:33:29 AM »
Okay, sounds tricky.  So, how does one determine if it's a pivitol part? Basically, I'm just using quotes from a person the writer interviewed.  I'm wondering if I need to somehow make note of this in my footnotes.  I will be having the person I quoted give the piece an expert review, so if they have a problem I can fix it.  Does this make sense?
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« Reply #4 on: April 27, 2012, 10:11:36 AM »
It's good that you're having the person quoted review...that's excellent.

Since you do HAVE access to the person, I wonder if you could go to the person and say something like (but representative of your situations): "In the 1994 Times article, you said that you felt 'robots were the computers of the future' and I wonder if you still feel like that. Could you tell me a little bit about how you see that?"

Then pick a quote out of the response. It would then be YOUR quote exclusively and no attribution to another publisher necessary (though you could still put the Times article in your source list). Honestly, I've done that before just to avoid any business of having to source in the actual article or any issue of whether I'm lifting too much -- or too important -- quotes from source material."
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« Reply #5 on: April 27, 2012, 04:53:53 PM »
Fantastic advice Jan!! Why didn't I think of that.  I appreciate your ideas and I hope others reading this are benefiting from it too.  Cheesy

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