Magnus Manske wrote:
It turns out that, according to the legal opinion, German law prohibits the collection of quotes, or quotes as such, if they are not used in a context.
That would mean the German wikiquote project's legal status is shaky at best. (IANAL)
Does this mean that printed collections of quotes, like the equivalent of the English world's ubiquitous _Bartlett's Book of Quotations_, are not commonly available in German bookstores?
-Mark