Summary of an article in a database

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• July 11, 2008 @ 1:59amKatia says:

  Hello, I have this concern: can I add the summary of any article written by any author, into a database and consider it as part of the bibliographical information, without having to ask permission from that author?
• July 15, 2008 @ 8:07amRuthDukelow says:

  Abstracts are considered to be original material protected by copyright. I believe that you would need to obtain permission before using someone else's abstract in your database. Or - you could write your own original abstracts for your database.
  
  A plain citation (author, title, ISBN, publisher info, etc.) without an abstract is factual information which you could include in a database without obtaining permission.

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