Re: the length of quotations--I only used two lines of a poem for an epigraph for the book as a whole. I was actually surprised I had to pay for the quote, because it did seem to be fair use. It wasn't the poet who set the price...it was the publisher of the original book.
So I'm not sure if it had to do with length or not, but I was surprised to discover that you do sometimes have to pay for quotations....
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Originally Posted by hartsfieldl1
This is what I was thinking of doing; since bloggers are in the public arena, I'm sure that legally there would be no problem with quoting a blog as long as it was sourced properly, and the quotation or paraphrase (which is probably what it would mostly be) adhered to the fair practices conventions. I was wondering if there were restrictions, and if it would be polite in this non-academic context to ask a blogger if he or she minded being quoted. Legally it wouldn't matter, but I was more concerned with protocol. I'm not even sure I'm going to do this, but I wondered if there were accepted practices and how people who blog would feel about being quoted.
If I were a blogger (and I'm not), I would like to see my work quoted by other people. It would bring attention to my blog, and that's what most of the blogging community seems to want.
The easiest solution would be to ask the blogger though, and if the blogger objected or wanted to be paid, to just leave that blogger out. It's not as though there's a drought in the blog landscape.
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I'm an academic too, but probably in a different field (creative writing) where the rules on quoted material are sometimes different.
I think, though, with your academic background, you'll do just fine, as you know how to quote for fair use, etc. I was thinking more of people who don't really know the difference between doing it for fair use and actually using huge swathes of something and calling it quoting
The reason I said I'd be annoyed, though, if someone didn't contact me is because I often am trying out things on the blog that will later end up in a published essay or book, and I'd prefer not to have someone else using that. I'd feel differently if someone contacted me first, however.