Hello
Sorry if this article gets posted twice, but I presume my subscription was not complete when I sent the following article.
I am not sure whether this is the right list to ask, if not could somebody please point out to me the appropriate one.
I want to write an article which relies heavily on scientific publications. (I will of course cite the relevant articles at the end of `my' wikipedia article). What I have in mind is a summary of their work, maybe one of ten sentences copied literally. Do I need the permissions of the authors of these article (one author is already dead) or could I avoid that problem in simply not copying even a single sentence verbatim?
Or without their explicit permission I simply could not write about the subject?
Thanks and regards
Uwe Brauer