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 Annual reports and Copyright issues
Author:David
Date:Tuesday, 9th Mar 2004 09:39
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Category:Communications and Publishing
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Hi,

Can anyone please let me know if there are any copyright issued regarding lifting information out of Annual Reports from Public companies.

I want to lift the executive bios verbatim from the ARs and put them into exec profiles.

Would I be in breach of copyright?

Thanks,

David

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  Annual reports and Copyright issues
Hi, Can anyone please let me know if there are any copyright issued regarding lifting information out of Annual Reports from ...
David 09/03/04 09:39 27918
   Re: Annual reports and Copyright issues
Annual reports are copyright, even though this kind of material is often copyright-waived (extracts from ARs held within an internal ...
Zena 12/03/04 13:11 27989
    Re: Annual reports and Copyright issues
Thanks Zena, confirmed what I was expecting which is good in one sense but means more work for me! David
david 12/03/04 15:08 27994
   Re: Annual reports and Copyright issues
Depending on how much you are copying and for what purpose, you might well be infringing copyright. Providing we are ...
Malcolm Kendall 12/03/04 10:10 27976
    Re: Annual reports and Copyright issues
Thanks Malcolm, I am planning to market these reports so will need to look in greater depth at legal aspects.
david 12/03/04 15:11 27995

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