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If you copy a quote from Google Books you still have to attribute the original author. It's not magically your text just because it was hosted on Google Books.

• ghaff 5y ago
  >If you copy a quote from Google Books you still have to attribute the original author. Mostly because if you don't do so, that's a plagiarism issue which the law mostly doesn't concern itself with except insofar as an attributed quote, unless the length is truly excessive, is likely to be seen as Fair Use while an unattributed quote, especially if it's more than a minimal snip, is not. (IANAL, etc.)
• Zambyte 5y ago
  > If you copy a quote from Google Books you still have to attribute the original author. It's not magically your text just because it was hosted on Google Books. That's the point I was trying to make, sorry if that wasn't clear. The parallel that I was trying to highlight is that it's not magically your code just because it was hosted on Microsoft Copilot.