[WikiEN-l] copyright question: concerning the use of scientific articles

[Fred Bauder]

Exactly. Ideas cannot be copyrighted; verbatim language is, by  
statute, copyrighted. Occasionally a brief quote might be necessary  
and considered fair use. For, example, you might in discussing  
Einstein's work need to use the sentence, "E equals mc squared."  
However, even if you don't copy a source, credit it. To not credit  
the source would be plagiarism.

Fred

On Oct 26, 2005, at 5:41 AM, Uwe Brauer wrote:

> could I avoid that problem in simply not copying even a
> single sentence verbatim?