I posted a similar question under novels, but no responses, so I'm asking the good folks here.
How creative can you be in attributing copyrighted work in fiction? That is, not using cites and sources, but have the characters site the source. And do you alway need permission from the author? Does anything modern become public domain? Most of the below quotes appear on thousands of web sites. Would these be OK in a work of fiction?
"Didn't Martin Luther King say "'A lie cannot live?'"
"Wasn't it Eistein who said 'Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love?''
Wasn't it Bill Clinton that said ""It depends on what the meaning of the words 'is' is.""
Suppose one of your characters starts reading a Wikipedia article out loud for a few sentence, but credits Wikipedia in the same sentence? "Well, Wikipedia says to boil water you need to start a fire . . ."
Using casual quotes from our daily lives can spice up a novel, but if you need to get permission for every single one it would be a big pain.
How creative can you be in attributing copyrighted work in fiction? That is, not using cites and sources, but have the characters site the source. And do you alway need permission from the author? Does anything modern become public domain? Most of the below quotes appear on thousands of web sites. Would these be OK in a work of fiction?
"Didn't Martin Luther King say "'A lie cannot live?'"
"Wasn't it Eistein who said 'Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love?''
Wasn't it Bill Clinton that said ""It depends on what the meaning of the words 'is' is.""
Suppose one of your characters starts reading a Wikipedia article out loud for a few sentence, but credits Wikipedia in the same sentence? "Well, Wikipedia says to boil water you need to start a fire . . ."
Using casual quotes from our daily lives can spice up a novel, but if you need to get permission for every single one it would be a big pain.
