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Originally Posted by BookCat
Would you mind giving a brief summary please, some of us don't want to wade through the legalese.
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Fair use allows up to 10% of a work to be used without having to gain permission if I remember correctly. That usually applies to longer books rather than songs or short poems which are fairly short to start with. So I could reference a book that you wrote on the history of cheese manufacturing for example while writing my own book about the state of Wisconsin (a big cheese making state) without having to obtain permission from you. On the other hand if you wrote a song about making cheese I would have to get your permission before including it in my book.