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[Jonathan Burroughs]

My understanding is there is some legal requirement in the UK for permission to have been sought if a quote appears in an advert or trailer which is broadcast on television. But I'm not sure if this applies to trailers which only appear online.

From an ethical perspective it seems appropriate to ask permission before quoting someone. I just wondered what the official legal situation was.

[Sik]

Not a lawyer, but taking a guess: it probably wasn't tested yet and it's likely a judge would agree that it falls under the same terms, so to play safe I'd say behave like those restrictions applied in this case as well. At worst you'll be just being more cautious than needed.

Of course, check with a lawyer to be 100% sure...

[AleHitti]

I have quoted phrases from articles written about our game on multiple occasions without asking for explicit permission. This is in the US though, so if you are a bit wary, just shoot them an email and ask Journalists are usually pretty cool and prompt to reply to emails

[knifeySpoonie]

Should be legal to quote without asking permission. I mean any quote you put in a trailer will genuinely be positive and then might lead to a link through to the preview or review etc... So it's positive

I can't see many magazines/websites not wanting people quoting them and potentially growing their readership

[Müsta Klaki]

Should be legal to quote without asking permission. I mean any quote you put in a trailer will genuinely be positive and then might lead to a link through to the preview or review etc... So it's positive

You could say the same thing about using some band's music in your YouTube videos that get 1 million+ views each, but they'll still get on your ass about it for dumb copyright shit.

[bdsowers]

If you're concerned, ask a lawyer. Getting your legal advice from a forum is risky at best. For that matter, giving legal advice in a forum is risky at best.

[WildFactor]

I didn't heard of anyone having trouble with it. (do someone here do ?)

The only trouble I've heard is a journalist that made an article saying that a game is bad, and the dev "extract" only a good sentences from his article.
The journalist complain and ask to get this sentence supressed from the steam description, but the dev didn't do it...
It backfire, because the complain of the journalist made a buzz. The dev only added a link to the original article, but let the sentence there...

A journalist have no interest of making a law suit and will just ask to remove it. The risk is to have bad reputation within journalist community...

[knifeySpoonie]

Should be legal to quote without asking permission. I mean any quote you put in a trailer will genuinely be positive and then might lead to a link through to the preview or review etc... So it's positive

You could say the same thing about using some band's music in your YouTube videos that get 1 million+ views each, but they'll still get on your ass about it for dumb copyright shit.

would totally depend on context.. If you like a small snippet of a review and provide a link to a free website supported by adverts its probably not an issue,

Using a song without permission that isn't free to reproduce in the first place is already sketchy.. If its music with a "free to use" tag that might be different.

The difference is your using a very small quote from a review, I really don't think they would be bothered having known a fair few journos.. I can ask a few former magazine guys what they think and get back to you guys..