Talk:The Gilded Age Construction of American Homophobia (book)

Question: Are you getting people's permission to use their reviews on BoyWiki or can you show that they are licensed free to use? That needs to be indicated in some way. That could be copyright infringement and possibly plagiarism unless they are excerpts and properly sourced. See TOS and Copyrights --Etenne 02:01, 11 May 2016 (UTC)

I am not a lawyer. My understanding is that it qualifies as "fair use":

• Examples of fair use in United States copyright law include commentary, search engines, criticism, parody, news reporting, research, and scholarship.

We are a non-profit organization, and part of our activities involve research and scholarship, commentary, criticism, etc. If amazon.com objects to use of the reviews, they can ask for them to be removed, but BoyWiki still may not be required to remove them due to the fair use provisions. User4 (talk) 03:32, 11 May 2016 (UTC)

When I took over as curator of BoyWiki, Fair Use on BoyWiki was completely prohibited. I have lessened those restrictions somewhat see BoyWiki:Fair use policy. However, we still do not want to use other people work without their permission if they have not made it free to use under GNU Free Documentation License, the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License , or other similar license. There are some prople who would not want their work used on BoyWiki and we need to respect that.--Etenne 11:47, 11 May 2016 (UTC)