Right, so since I've started working on the hoods, I've often been asked about quotes: what we can do, and what we can't do where texts are concerned (I'll leave recommendations about pictures to Lalita :P).

Basically, as much as possible, write texts yourself! That way, no problem. Besides, once you make the effort to put things into your own words, you'll remember them better, believe me ;-)

You can quote texts by others, but normally not more than a paragraph. Of course, as long as you quote, you must indicate clearly the source, be it online, a book, or any other medium. More than a paragraph or two may be interpreted as violation of copyrights by the author, and they can sue Ancient Worlds, even if you quote your source, so please avoid! Of course, authors may agree if you quote more, but they should be asked first. Also, if your source is an online site, read carefully the copyright notice, it is often indicated if you may or not reproduce written material from their site.

There are two special cases, as far as I know. There are sites like wikipedia, that authorize that you use written material from their site 'verbatim'. BUT they have conditions: you must follow the GFDL, or "GNU Free Documentation License". What does that mean? That you must add a full notice with a link to the GFDL agreement. You'll find all the explanations and a notice that you can copy&paste here. Again, you must add this notice, only the link will not be enough!

Finally, here I am not sure, but it seems to me that like for other works of Art, you can reproduce texts from authors older than 75 years old, provided you're quoting the original work and not a tranlsation that's not at least 75 y.o. Maybe someone could tell us more about this?