On 24 October 2011 11:48, Francis Davey <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. >
Fair point, and one of the things lawyers are there for is to be pendantic :-) > > Hence, what you are actually thinking about is implied licences. > I wonder if there's an implied licence in the Annual Reports that are distributed to RNA's (i.e. those for PLCs etc) for onward distribution to the investment community, etc. -- ------------------------------------------------------- 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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