Re: Using famous quotes on site

It is my understanding copyright applies to original works, be they oral or 
written.  Besides, if you are collecting quotes for a baseball web site, 
what you will display are written quotations of an oral utterance.  Seems 
to me you are talking about something which must be written on a web site 
(and thus subject to copyright) of an oral utterance (which may also be 
subject to copyright).

If you copy quotations from a book to put on a web site, that book is 
copyrighted and you violate the law if you do not seek and gain permission 
from the copyright owner.  Then again, it is possible the author of the 
book sought and obtained permission from the speaker to use their words in 
a book, too.  Hence, there is the possibility you may have to seek and gain 
permission not just from the author of the book, but from the original 
speaker as well.

Kukla



At 09:56 AM 3/21/02 -0700, you wrote:
>Mike:
>
>Don't copyright laws pertain to written works (books, articles, webpages, 
>etc.) as opposed
>to spoken words? I have never seen spoken words copyrighted! Maybe I'm 
>wrong...I dunno!
>Good question though because I designed a baseball site that has quotes 
>from baseball
>personalities throughout history, and if there is an issue, I would be 
>interested also.
>
>Ted
>
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Mike Taylor" <lonewolf(at)one.net>
>To: <hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org>
>Sent: Thursday, March 21, 2002 8:39 AM
>Subject: Using famous quotes on site
>
>
>I've been asked by someone to place a random quote on their page.  I
>figured I'd just find me a book of famous quotes, stick them in a database
>and write a simple script to randomize them.
>
>Well, the person doesn't want me to do this because he's concerned about
>copyright issues.  I didn't think it'd be a problem so long as you
>attribute the quote to it's proper source, and I've seen countless sites
>that have these stupid quotes on them (sorry, I think using quotes on a
>professional site is silly, and told him so in not so many words).
>
>Anyone know of a copyright issue with quotes used in this fashion?  It's
>not like they are using it to sell something, it's just for
>inspiration...though it is on a commercial site.  I would appreciate
>responses from those with hard facts, not opinions on the matter,
>please.  I don't want to open up a big flame war on the topic.
>
>Mike


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