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Originally Posted by DaleDe
Certainly the gutenberg press predates copyright but I was referring to people copying text for the purpose of including it in their own documents, not publishing. Educators are well aware that that copyright has an affect in how much they can extract from a document in a research paper for example. Even people quoting the Bible in a modern version are subject to how much they can quote.
Dale
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Ah. Like that "Harry Potter Lexicon" issue a while back.
The whole subject of "fair use" is a complicated gray area. There are books that consist of nothing but quotes, but these are usually principally from public domain sources.
This again raises the issue of length of copyright term, however. For how long should restrictions on a modern translation of the Bible (for example) be in place?