Legal Question in Intellectual Property in Texas

Re: Using other people's quotes

This is a fact sensitive question and you would need to determine the answer for each person you quote. Let me know if you want my assistance with this; my firm does handle media and entertainment law as well as Internet and other areas.

Re: Using other people's quotes

Short quotes, phrases, slogans and quips are usually not entitled to copyright protection. An excerpt from a copyrighted work may not, subject to fair use, be quoted. As you move along the spectrum from a brief quote to a more substantive passage, you move closer to and over the "infringement threshhold." As David Nance states, it's fact senstive in each case but the foregoing is a decent guide.