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I am about to start a question/answers site related to different topics. I have data collected from downloads/online article/people etc.

But i am not sure Is it legal to extract question/small description question from collected data and show it on website as question/answer form.

Here is a question sample How to make margarita?

Many sites has answer for this in form of article/books, I will just take part of it and show as a answer.

Do i need to take any legal permission from data owner like novelist/siteowners/etc.?

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Yes, you have to ask for permission, and I doubt you will not receive in most cases.

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As far as I'm concerned, yes, you should attribute sources. But this sounds like one to check with a lawyer.

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if it is not possible then there must be some way to go for it.. any idea about it...?

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This is the whole point of copyright, there's no way around it. If you ignore copyright, you'll end up with constant requests to remove content. You basically need to create your own content, if it were as easy as copying, nobody would create the content to start with. – David Mar 29 '11 at 11:01
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If you show just a part as preview and link back to the original content's location on the web, this will probably hold against a lawsuit based on a precedent set by Google.

So you'll have something like

To make margarita you take 2 parts tequila [click here to see more]

*Note: I am not a lawyer and you should not treat this as legal advice.

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