using other people's words
Tue, 2001-10-16 02:26
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using other people's words
If you want to put something you have read elsewhere, eg in a newspaper, where it appears in quotation marks, becuase it is someone speaking about themselves/their experiences, is that ok to include in your own work just with quotation marks?
Should you even use someone talking about something horrific which happened to them?
Liana
Think it depends who it is Fay, and how you use it...try it. Do it for yourself first of all, see if its comfortable.
andrew pack
Probably not if it is a journalist - breach of copyright. If it is a quote from an ordinary person, then don't see why not. I wouldn't even put it in quotes.
andrew pack
Absolutely go to it Fey.
If it's going to produce works like Rocket, I'm heartily in favour
www.abctales.com/abcplex/viewstory.cgi?s=10595
I've read at least a hundred poems about the current situation and only about three or four have really caught my attention. This is one - barenib's "The Day my barber was murdered" is another.
andrew pack
Other people's words are fine - other people's poems not so fine. Cryptic, but someone knows what I'm talking about.
Not Fey, I hasten to add.
fish
*winks at andrew*
dear fey ... i am always using other people's words ... without them i would hardly write a thing ...