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What about copyright and/or intellectual property of these quotes? Do quotes fall under fair usage law?

• swiftcoder 2y ago
  At a glance most of the quotes seem to be pre-1920's, so those should all be in the public domain. One would have to make a full audit to be entirely sure that no more recent literature has crept in.
  • 1234srose 2y ago
    For this particular product, it doesn't matter what the publication year of the book is. 1) The quotes are short and 2) the use of them is transformative, so this falls squarely within the doctrine of Fair Use. That said, I'm sure if an author or publisher of a book that's still within copyright contacted Author Clock and asked them to remove their quotes from the database they probably would, because it just wouldn't be a thing worth fighting about.
• joe5150 2y ago
  Reproducing a quotation from a book is likely always fair use in the US. A database of quotes is also probably not copyrightable in the first place though of course the software is.