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Jason T
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  		   Posted 8/5/2008 11:56 AM (GMT -5)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Here's goes:  Is it acceptable and/or permissable for a blog to use text from a story in a promotional capacity--for a project containing that story--without citing the author of the text? 
 
Using text from a story as part of a blurb, etc. without using quotation marks or citing the work or author from which it came?
 
Thanks in advance for opinions and input.

Jason Thummel
 
"A Stand in the Eye of the Needle" Flashing Swords, May 2008
"Mortismagus" in Magic and Mechanica, Ricasso Press Forthcoming 2008
"The Gift of the Unspoken God," in The Infinity Swords, Carnivah House > >, Forthcoming 2008
"The Homecoming of Brother Antonitus" Flashing Swords May 2009

“The Gunnerman” Black Gate: Adventures in Fantasy Literature, forthcoming TBA >>

"Thorvold's Tale" in The Age of Blood and Snow,  Morrigan Books, forthcoming Dec 2008

 

 

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Mike Lynch
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  		   Posted 8/5/2008 12:25 PM (GMT -5)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
When in doubt, it has always been my policy to cite. There's just no downside to that.

Mike

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  		   Posted 8/5/2008 1:06 PM (GMT -5)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
It's kind of cheesy, acceptable or not, not to cite.

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  		   Posted 8/5/2008 3:03 PM (GMT -5)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
It's always best to cite it. In this case, it's actually better advertising/marketing to advertise it since it is part of the product being highlighted.
If it were from something outside of the project being plugged, I would insist on citation as a matter of professionalism if not strictly of copyright.

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  		   Posted 8/8/2008 10:00 PM (GMT -5)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
I wouldn't use it without a citation. I'd definitely say err on the side of giving credit where credit is due.

Charles Gramlich
 

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