Companies like Business Summaries (www.bizsum.com/) read a book and sell a summary. Is it legal?
Answer:
So long as the book is very carefully paraphrased, and you don't directly quote the book. what you say about the book can be taken as your own opinion.
However, what constitutes careful paraphrasing which doesn't plagiarize can be a bit of a gray area.
It depends on whether you need to get permission to quote the book. In that case you'd be in for some legal trouble if you didn't obtain it. But if you are just referring to a synopsis (summary without quotes), that would probably be ok. Just don't plagiarize ANYTHING, ok.
Yes,
To most of the world we call this a "book report". So until book reports are made illegal, which I am sure would make many school kids happy, there is absolutely nothing illegal about it. Just make sure you put your references in the paper.
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