Francis I think that's an interesting question, and a non-trivial one.
Have spoken with some in govt about this, and I don't think it's entirely clear that a court would enforce the copyright on annual reports (though you're the lawyer, I am not). Obviously photos within them, other aspects, and even the reports have copyright, but does the role as public documents override this in any way (i.e. if you can't email a company report to your financial advisor for analysis does it 'work'). There's also the question of whether they are also like press releases, designed by their nature to be distributed. As I said, I am not a lawyer, but it would seem to me that if a company were to enforce the copyright on the annual report, it would call into question the whole purpose of annual reports. Chris On 24 October 2011 10:54, Francis Davey <[email protected]> wrote: > 2011/10/24 Paul Waring <[email protected]>: > > > > Level Business have bought some form of subscription service - or at > least I > > presume this is the case since you can view annual accounts on their site > > within 24 hours of them being accepted by Companies House. I imagine for > > quoted companies in the UK you could probably just scrape the accounts > from > > their websites, although that would not catch all their subsidiaries. > > > > Although, sadly, that would then infringe copyright of those accounts. > > -- > Francis Davey > > _______________________________________________ > developers-public mailing list > [email protected] > https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/listinfo/developers-public > > Unsubscribe: > https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/options/developers-public/countculture%40googlemail.com > -- ------------------------------------------------------- OpenCorporates :: The Open Database of the Corporate World http://opencorporates.com OpenlyLocal :: Making Local Government More Transparent http://openlylocal.com Blog: http://countculture.wordpress.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/CountCulture
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