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Is a summary of a book copyright infringement?
Summarizing in your own words is not a copyright violation. Fair use doesn’t apply. 3. Summarizing a book about 10 secrets by creating a reworded list of the 10 secrets might be a copyright violation.
Is book summary legal on Youtube?
The answer to the question is relative. If you are copying a book’s excerpts word to word or showing exact passages from the book, then yes, you are infringing copyrights. But if you are producing a write-up in your own words and sharing it in a different manner, the act won’t count under copyright infringement.
Is it legal to summarize an article?
Summaries, reviews, and so on generally aren’t copyright infringement unless they actually take a substantial portion of the exact expression of the material they are summarizing/reviewing. Additionally, in cases of factually based stories, since the facts themselves are not copyrightable.
Is it legal to review a book?
Yes, a book review would be subject to copyright protection. Focusing on US law, copyright law protects original works of authorship that are fixed in a tangible medium of expression.
Ethically, yes. Legally, depends. Is it illegal to share, for free, the summary of a book and put my name on it? In the attached link, you describe condensing a book down to one third of its original length by copying parts of the original.
Do you need permission to publish a book without copyright?
In the US, that’s considered to be a subsidiary right under the original copyright. Therefore, yes, you do need to get permission to publish (or create) such a work, and if you’re going to sell it, you need that permission even more. It is considered a derivative work, so unless it is part of a review or critical work, yes, you need permission.
What happens if you put your name on a book?
Putting your name on it isn’t the problem; the problem is the copying of copyright material. For the copyright owner, each person who received a free copy of your version represents a lost sale of the original book, and they could pursue you for an amount of money equal to those lost sales.
Can I use a summary of a book for fair use?
When your summary draws on the original source, that is considered Fair Use for critique, as long as you don’t replace the original. If there is already a summary on the back of the book, or on the website, and you want to reproduce or share it, that can fall under fair use rules for review, critique and education, and that snippet might even be