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Originally Posted by mrscoach
The assertion that people don't normally pay for works quoted in a biography doesn't stand up, because the same material has been quoted by others who HAVE paid.
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You mean this?
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/hi...s-1530789.html
That was in a British newspaper, which hardly covered itself with glory here. And it wasn't a news story quoting Herr Goebbles, but a long article that consisted wholly of extracts. Except for the Nazi angle, this was closer to a
Readers Digest condensed book. I agree that the publisher or author or heir should get paid for those.
I'm at least as sure that "people don't normally pay for works quoted in a biography" as you are sure of the opposite. We'll have to agree to disagree on that.