On 24/10/2011 12:33, Chris Taggart wrote:
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.
You have understood incorrectly, in that case :-)
Issuing a press release doesn't put it in the public domain, or change
its copyright status. What it does do is create an implied licence to
copy and republish the content for all the normal purposes associated
with a press release. But such an implied licence can be explicitly
overridden or revoked.
A common real life example of that is embargoed press releases (ie,
those which are sent out with a restriction that the content cannot be
published prior to a certain date). If the recipient publishes the
material early, then they would be in breach of copyright as the licence
to reproduce it is conditional on the embargo being honoured.
Mark
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