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Re: Quoting copyrighted material in a tech manual?
Subject:Re: Quoting copyrighted material in a tech manual? From:Robert Lauriston <robert -at- lauriston -dot- com> To:Laura Lemay <lemay -at- lauralemay -dot- com>, techwr-l <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Tue, 17 Jun 2014 12:05:29 -0700
It's up to the copyright holder whether to charge a fee. They might
look at it as free promotion if the manual were written in such a way
as to strongly encourage purchase of the book.
On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 11:00 AM, Laura Lemay <lemay -at- lauralemay -dot- com> wrote:
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> Even if you acquired the permissions to quote, there is likely a fee you will need to pay depending on the amount of content you're excerpting.
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