Quotation
What’s changing?
Currently it is an infringement of copyright to take a quotation from one work and use it in another without permission from the copyright owner, unless it is done for the purposes of criticism, review or news reporting. The law is being changed to allow quotations to be used more widely without infringing copyright, as long as the use is fair (in law, the use must be a “fair dealing”, see the box below) and the source of the quotation is acknowledged. It is ultimately for the courts to determine whether use of a quotation is fair dealing, which will depend on the facts of any specific case, but short quotations which are justified by their context are more likely to be considered fair than long and unnecessary ones. For example, the use of a title and short extract from a book in an academic article discussing the book may be considered fair, and be permitted under this exception, whereas the copying of a long extract from a book, without it being justified by the context, is unlikely to be permitted. You may benefit from this law if you are an author, academic, or even just a casual blogge
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