body: Can a person violate copyright by taking notes? For example if I am reading a book and want to copy a full paragraph, word for word, into my notes and don't cite it, is that copyright violation? What if the notes are online (Google Drive) and I want to add a picture, and I copy and paste a picture of McDonald's or a famous piece of artwork into it. Technically, would that be breaking copyright?
  
  
  My understanding is that fair use has nothing to do here as fair use applies to something (sort of) new.
  
  
  
title: Can taking notes violate copyright?