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