Ask Question. Asked 4 years, 7 months ago. Active 1 year, 7 months ago. Viewed 5k times. This topic has been discussed--but please advise me on this particular test case. Thank you in advance. Improve this question. HeavenlyHarmony 1 1 silver badge 8 8 bronze badges. I wonder if it would be okay to do something similar. I'm writing two sequel manuscripts for my memoir, and the second one will be called My True Name based on a line from Bobby Joe Valentine's Strong Enough.
Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Improve this answer. But, "She Loves You" would probably be generic enough to be fine. Jay Agreed. At least in the USA not sure about other nations the title of a creative work, just as a title, cannot by copyrighted.
Other considerations may apply, since copyright is not the only form of legal protection. Iffy, perhaps, as songs and book are clearly different categories. I'd check with a lawyer before I tried it. When I mentioned "other considerations may apply," I was thinking of Trademarks However, that's a very flexible area of law, with numerous cases. I Want to Hold Your Hand, 2. Ticket to Ride, 3. Day Tripper, It's VERY unlikely that the songwriters filed for a trademark.
This rarely happens for artistic works. Show 1 more comment. The law "calls for consideration of the following four factors in evaluating a question of fair use:" Purpose and character of the use, including whether the use is of a commercial nature or is for nonprofit educational purposes : Courts look at how the party claiming fair use is using the copyrighted work, and are more likely to find that nonprofit educational and noncommercial uses are fair.
Your use is unlikely to hurt the market or value of the songs. Summary In favor of fair use: You are using only a small and relatively unimportant piece of each song. Your work is almost entirely new and different from the songs.
Your work probably won't compete with sales of the original work. The songs you're quoting have already been published. Against fair use: Your work may be "of a commercial nature". The songs are a "creative or imaginative" work. Tanner Swett Tanner Swett 5 5 silver badges 11 11 bronze badges. Please don't judge the novel by the movie. Catalyst Catalyst 2 2 silver badges 4 4 bronze badges. That's useful to know! Also, perhaps the use of multiple sources was influential. On the other hand, reliance on a particular source is asking for trouble.
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Say Yes to Practice. I'M IN! The Practicing Community. Rep Your Practice If you practice, let the people who read your blog know. Copy and paste the code for the button into your sidebar and show off your hard work. Social Instagram Facebook Twitter Pinterest. Song titles , however, should be in quotation marks and each principle word in the title should be capitalized.
You don't have to italicize song titles either. The basic structure of a book reference should list the author's last name, first initials, publication year, book title, location, and publisher.
Your reference should appear as follows: Author, I. For every in- text citation in your paper , there must be a corresponding entry in your reference list. APA in- text citation style uses the author's last name and the year of publication, for example: Field, For direct quotations, include the page number as well, for example: Field, , p. Book titles are italicized. If you are using a typewriter and can't write in italics, then it is customary to underline the title.
Same applies to plays. Titles of poems, short stories, essays, and other short pieces are set off in double quotes. Titles of full works like books or newspapers should be italicized. Titles of short works like poems , articles, short stories, or chapters should be put in quotation marks. Cite the film in essay by the title of the film only.
Place quotation marks around the title, rather than italicizing the title. Capitalize the first and last word in the title, as well as all principle words.
Capitalize verbs and prepositions if they contain more than three letters. While a comma after the title may be correct on rare occasions which don't concern us here , a comma only before a name or title is wrong.
Rules for Writing a Book Title in APA Use quotation marks instead of italics with the exceptions of the Bible and catalogs of reference material such as dictionaries. The event title should be less than characters long, including spaces. Single quotation marks should be used around the titles of books, plays and movies.
In the absence of a prescribed style, use the following guidelines: Put quotation marks around song titles: For best appearance in professionally typeset material, use proper typographical quote marks and apostrophes curly quotes.
Formatting and Punctuation Generic titles should not be italicized or put in quotations: Beethoven's Symphony No. Mozart, Requiem, K. Note that in titles the pitch and the tonality are capitalized. Opus numbers appear last, without capitalization, and are preceded by a comma. Titles of articles, episodes, interviews, songs , should be in quotes. A: In APA , use italics for titles of books, scholarly journals, periodicals, films, videos, television shows, and microfilm publications.
Quotation marks or italics are not required for articles, webpages, songs , episodes, etc.
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