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Best practices to avoid copyright infringement

Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

There’s a significant probability that someone already owns the rights to the content even if you cannot locate an explicit declaration stating that it is intended for public use. It would be preferable to obtain written authorization from the copyright owners before using the original content. Document right to use.

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Implementing Article 15 of the CDSMD into the Greek legal order: “creative” or further confirmation of the EU press market’s fragmentation?

Kluwer Copyright Blog

In particular, the new rule does not stipulate a “quantitative” floor for permissible uses, since it makes no specific reference to the extent and/or the number of words or typographic characters under which the use of an extract/part of a press publication by an Information Society Service Provider (ISSP) should always be permitted.

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The Good Get: Interviews, The Predicates Of Copyright Ownership, & Divorcing Subjects From Owning Copyright Content

LexBlog IP

Government by its officers and employees should not be subject to copyright” and fall “in the public domain.” ” US Const., ” US Const., It is strange because that would mean that the unpublished portions would also be government works available for public use. ” H.R.