blue vs. red flags - reviews copied from back of book

Silly question, but I can't remember: for "reviews" that are actually just descriptions copied from the back of the book, is that the "not a review" flag or the "TOS violation" flag? Copy & pasting book cover descriptions probably falls within fair use, so not a copyright violation, right?
(In this case, it probably makes more sense to leave a profile comment, but someone already has. I might leave one anyway in this case.)

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Copy & pasting book cover descriptions probably falls within fair use, so not a copyright violation, right?

Wrong, I think. A quote of a sentence or two, maybe, but surely not the whole thing!

Yeah, I'm not really sure if it's the whole thing or not in many of these cases. Some are pretty short, and could be just a sentence or two. They aren't in quotation marks, of course.

(I'm kind of a stickler about these kinds of things, so I tend to think it's all plagiarism, but I got the sense that many here thought was thought "ok" to repeat book jacket descriptions in the CK description field. So if it's not a copyright violation/TOS violation in one place, it can't really be in the other. Or, maybe my stickler-instincts are correct, and it is in both...)

red flag.

I'm pretty sure it is copyright violation - pasting the whole thing is certainly not fair use.

I don't think it should be pasted in the member description field either as it is probably considered copyrighted by the publisher.

I have these descriptions in the summary field (the text on the back of the book that describes the story, not the review blurbs). I have typed them over for all my books, so I have about 1000 of these descriptions in the summary field... For me they belong to the metadata, and for most books, they seem to be commonly shared online (Amazon and other webshops use them).... But I am curious if this is allowed.

As a review, I would say not a review flag, because even if a summary is written by the reviewer, it is still not a review.

Red flag. Both are appropriate, but the more serious offense -- copyright violation -- trumps the lesser.