Copyright Aid

Andy, thanks again for your prompt and courteous reply.

In my first post in this thread, I mentioned tensions between myself and the administrator of one particular forum. I did email him to try to determine common ground in my using it for information,but he never replied. I suspect that it was ...

Further to the above of last year, I see that a number of websites are using this form of words:

"Visitors or users are not permitted to modify, distribute, publish, transmit or create derivative works of any material found on this site for any public or commercial purposes."

As ever, the devil is ...

In all fairness to Amazon, it might find it difficult to compose more detailed guidance; this would need to be concise but people would always find their own particular queries unanswered (a bit like Covid guidance), and then there's the cosmopolitan nature of its business, with countries having ...

I pressed Amazon further and got this reply:

"Please know that the book that you submit for publishing on KDP should meet all our content and guidelines and you should have the copyrights for publishing the material on KDP. We have a specific team which reviews the book's to see if they meet our ...

As ever, Andy, thanks. The excerpt I sent to the editor included an attribution comparable to your example.

Just a rhetorical observation: yesterday I emailed the editor of a local news website and author of some very good local books to ask permission to quote some 70 words from an interview with the landlady of a local pub that he'd published in 2010. He replied "I realise I cannot grant permission to ...

Thanks yet again, Andy

Having looked at the links, I think that I may be within US copyright law, apart from when I've used rather more than half of a short statement. Most of the people I've quoted wouldn't object and many will probably never know that I've quoted them! It's the thought of ...

My first email to Amazon elicited an automated response that misunderstood my question and told me to do two things that I said in my email that I'd done already. I had a little more luck with my second attempt, the reply to which included: "As long as you hold the necessary copyright to a book you ...

Thanks as ever, Andy. As I said, people on the Kindle Direct Publishing Community are sucking their teeth about my approach, which prompted me to post here. You generally confirm what one or two them are saying.

A few weeks ago, Andy gave me some useful advice

here

about extrapolating information from Internet Forums.

I'm thinking of publishing my book on Amazon and have been ploughing through all the guidance. There's a reference to the author being responsible for copyright clearances but nothing ...

Thanks again, Andy

As it happens, there's one 19-year-old quote I'm interested in using that I got from the Wayback Machine, and the info was reproduced on the forum from which I'm taking bits & pieces of detail. A few years ago, someone provided me with a link to it on the Wayback Machine, which ...

I'm not seeking further guidance (not for the moment, anyway), but let me indulge my whimsy in these leisured times.

A couple of the people whose posts I want to quote have died, so won't be bothered if I print what they wrote - though their copyright extends for another 68 years or so (if I recall ...

Andy, thanks for your prompt and comprehensive reply. My head was beginning to ache after trying to research the topic for myself. What you say is reassuring, rather more so than I'd hoped.

I'd raised this matter on the Great War Forum, whose mods are, understandably, very hot about posts of photos ...

My first post here

By way of introduction, I’ve written four factual books over the years and managed to get my head around copyright law regarding them. (But I once had an angry letter threatening legal action because I’d done a 169-word summary of two pages of a book!)

Currently I’m working on a ...