Am I legally at risk if I were to create a summary of a book and provide access to it online as a download? Key phrases in the book would be repeated, but overall, it would be a summary written by someone else (pretty similar to 'Cliff Notes'). Do I NEED to get any permission from a publisher or autohor, or can I write and make available such a summary independent of any such interaction with the author/publisher. If it were necessary to notify the publisher, would my obligation simply be to notify the publisher, or would I have to seek their permission? I would not be quoting passages verbatim, but would be using some of the key terminology/phrases in the book, where required.
The content would be a summary of a full book - not a review or comment on the bug. Rather, it would be written to be a shorter substitute to the original.
2006-08-28
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