Re: quoting & copyright

--- In palistudy@yahoogroups.com, "Jim Anderson" <jimanderson_on@...>
wrote:
> "Grammars may be considered the absolute fringe of literature.
> Nevertheless, they go straight to the core of language -- the medium
> in which literature is presented -- and reveal a great deal about what
> those who wrote them thought about their own language, about language
> in general, and about their literature." -- E.G. Kahrs, Exploring the
> Saddaniiti, JPTS XVII 1992, p. 1
>
> Dear group,
>
> On April 4, I received the following response from Dr. Rupert Gethin,
> Hon. Secretary of the Pali Text Society, regarding my query about
> quoting long passages from PTS publications and copyright. I thought
> it may be of some interest to you. The article he refers to is the one
> by K.R. Norman in JPTS XII.
>
> "In my view quoting from the article in the context of an on-line
> discussion forum -- even to the
> extent of quoting the whole chunk on apilapati -- does not infringe
> PTS copyright and does not require formal permission. The section on
> apilapati is only about 15% of the whole; the quotation is for
> legitimate scholarly discussion. If the whole article was in effect
> published on a website, then that would require formal permission.
> Hope this helps." -- Rupert Gethin
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Jim


Hi again,

Thank you for this, it's very useful to know especially for my website,

Amara