2011/10/24 Chris Taggart <[email protected]>: > > No, but that's not the point I was making. I (possibly incorrectly) > understood that Press Releases were deemed to have been put in the public > domain by the entity issuing them. I just wondered if the same could be > argued for annual reports, particularly if they are also given to regulatory > news agencies, for wider distribution.
I doubt it. Just a pedantic observation: you can't (in UK law) put something "in the public domain" (in the copyright sense). You can give a broad licence so that anyone can use it. You *might* be able to disclaim it (so that it would fall into the hands of the Crown by bona vacantia), but copyright just keeps on going until its time expires. Hence, what you are actually thinking about is implied licences. Annual reports have to be given to CH, which suggests there's no implied licence to do anything in particular there. If published, it would depend on the terms and form of publication, but it seems unlikely that you could do much with them beyond what the company wanted you to do. -- 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/archive%40mail-archive.com
