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Can anyone advise on the use of "Copyrighted Material" such as here at The Whist Reference Book by William Mill Butler pages 205 & 206.?
I am trying to flesh out the article Edwin C Howell (whist and bridge player) and would summarise the considerable detail in the above pages, but would not wish to trespass on copyright. Thus, in the section on Personal life:
Born on 21 April 1860 in Nantucket, Massachusets Edwin C Howell was the son of a clergyman who did not allow card games in the family circle. Howell learned to play cards, poker first(!) at ( Harvard) college where he also excelled at chess. He was playing championship standard whist by 1881 and was an Honour Man in Mathematics. Graduating in 1883 he moved to Baltimore where he taught for a while and was the amateur chess champion of that city. In 1887 he entered journalism, and in 1889 was on the Boston Herald.
In 1893 he became a charter member and first secretary of the American Whist Club. and I still do not know what the C stood for as his middle name!
Any takers? Viking1808 (talk) 14:18, 19 July 2018 (UTC)Reply
I'm far from being an expert, but I think you would be OK making use of the factual material so long as you expressed it in your own words rather than borrowing any substantial amount of the wording of the original. For instance, rather than say In 1887 he entered journalism you might say He became a journalist in 1887. It might be worth looking at the Wikipedia article on copyright. Ideally you would like to have two or more sources for info on his life, so that you did not have to rely too heavily on just the one. The Official Encyclopedia of Bridge has a short piece on him, and it says that his middle name was "Cull". He seems to be most famous in bridge circles for inventing the Howell movement in 1897. JH (talk page) 15:48, 19 July 2018 (UTC)Reply
That was quick! many thanks. I will give it a day or two to see if anything else arises. Viking1808 (talk) 16:22, 19 July 2018 (UTC)Reply
And now I see, in the republished book, a note that the copyright has indeed expired - but the reproduction includes the copyright warning from its first publication date. good! Viking1808 (talk) 18:33, 21 July 2018 (UTC)Reply
