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There is no specified amount of how much of another persons work that you can use without permission, and with good reason.

As an example, The Nation magazine published a review of Gerald Fords 200,000+ word autobiography. In the course of that review they directly quoted only 300 words from the book yet they were sued for infringement & lost.

Why? Normally (under the "fair use" doctrine) it is permissible to use short passages from any work for the purposes of "commentary, criticism, news reporting, and scholarly reports"

Because the 300 words were about the reasons the Mr Ford gave for pardoning Richard Nixon and were determined by the US Supreme Court to be the most important 300 words in the book & by revealing them The Nation gave people less reason the purchase the book.

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