Tomasz Wegrzanowski wrote:
Axel Boldt wrote:
>Even for quotations you need the word
"likely" somewhere: your quoting
>a line of Martin Luther King in an article about him is certainly fair
>use; my selling t-shirts with that quote on it is certainly not.
Are you sure about that ?
In Poland I wouldn't hesitate for a moment before selling such t-shirts.
Short quotes receive next to zero protection here and I don't know why it
should be otherwise anywhere else.
In 1979, a US federal court ruled that
Ashleigh Brilliant's "Pot-Shots" are Epigrams,
therefore copyrightable, and he's won a half-dozen lawsuits
(and several other cases that never made it to court).
A "Pot-Shot" has a /maximum/ of 17 (English) words.
To be sure, Brilliant's epigrams are unusual;
because of their small size, they're more like images.
You can't take an Excerpt from a "Pot-Shot".
-- Toby