Selling a Work that Quotes and Cites Other Works

[rmna]

Hi, I was wondering if it is legal to create a book that quotes and cites other books and sell it. The value in the book would be that it accumulates the information that can be found in a disperse set of sources. I read that one of the rights provided by copyright is the owner's exclusive right to create derivative works. How might this apply/not apply in this case?

 

[Mass_Shyster]

Hi, I was wondering if it is legal to create a book that quotes and cites other books and sell it. The value in the book would be that it accumulates the information that can be found in a disperse set of sources. I read that one of the rights provided by copyright is the owner's exclusive right to create derivative works. How might this apply/not apply in this case?

If all you're doing is gathering up other people's work and publishing it in one volume, you're probably violating their copyrights.

In my opinion (which legally means nothing), if you take a sentence from someone else's work (and properly attribute it to the author), you're probably OK. If you take a paragraph, you may be OK but you're pushing it. If you repeatedly take sentences, you're pushing it too.