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Copywrite
If you are, for instance, writing an article for a magazine etc, and you want to use a phrase you have read describing a building or some such thing - surely if you put the phrase in quotation marks, to indicate it was said by someone else, somewhere else - that is not the same as infringeing copywrite rules. Is it?
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.Not usually. If it's only a couple of words nobody is likely to notice anyway if you don't use quote marks; if it's a sentence or two they'd probably be happy to have their name mentioned as the originator of the quote. (Longer chunks, without mentioning where they came from, would probably be plagiarism.)
I suppose just ask yourself: If I'd originated that quote, how happy would I be to see someone else using it, with/without attribution?
I suppose just ask yourself: If I'd originated that quote, how happy would I be to see someone else using it, with/without attribution?
Aye Sall but it's still someone else's words. If you had written the description, then found it word for word in someone else's article passed off as if they had written it, you'd be tee'd off.
I also believe it makes for respect all round to acknowledge someone else's work, however great or small they are. Concomitantly, it demeans a writer not to pay this courtesy.
I also believe it makes for respect all round to acknowledge someone else's work, however great or small they are. Concomitantly, it demeans a writer not to pay this courtesy.
for 'didn't see your last post' read 'didn't see the one before that'... Anyway, if it's simple non-technical phrasing, I'd just use it without putting it in quote marks. But if it was actually cleverly worded enough to stay in your mind (as it has done), then just "hailed as an architectural masterpiece" or womething...