Hello fellow Water Cooler denizens!
I am writing (hopefully for fee) a series of articles that reference certain public domain material, from the 1700s and 1800s, which is way out of copyright. However, I access this information in relatively new books, say from the last 30 to 40 years. These books all contain a notice about not using the material in the books without attribution....
My question is: Since the material is out of copyright, and I don't use any words found only in the new books, is there any problem quoting the old, old material without attributing where I found the material? I don't want to run afoul of copyright laws, but I just can't see why I should reference the new book that contained the old material.
NDG
I am writing (hopefully for fee) a series of articles that reference certain public domain material, from the 1700s and 1800s, which is way out of copyright. However, I access this information in relatively new books, say from the last 30 to 40 years. These books all contain a notice about not using the material in the books without attribution....
My question is: Since the material is out of copyright, and I don't use any words found only in the new books, is there any problem quoting the old, old material without attributing where I found the material? I don't want to run afoul of copyright laws, but I just can't see why I should reference the new book that contained the old material.
NDG
