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Originally Posted by shibamistress
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....
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. |
I can understand why you wouldn't want someone using things that you might want to use later. I would feel the same way. My appointment is in English and Environmental Studies, and I work with people in creative writing but don't do that myself.