[Advisory] Providing Legal Guidance on Posting Online News Articles
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Online internet articles are easily accessible to anyone using the internet, and it is very easy to copy or save the full text. Therefore, many people post the full text or links to articles written by news companies on internet homepages, communities, blogs, and SNSs and share them. However, if many internet users upload posts in this way and distribute internet articles for the public to see in the same way, there is a high probability of legal problems. News articles can also be protected by the current copyright law as works, except for specific cases, and may constitute copyright infringement depending on the form of posting. Copyright infringement acts such as unauthorized copying may be subject to criminal punishment under the current copyright law, so it is very important to pay close attention.
Company A posted an article related to Company A written by a reporter from media company B on the Company A homepage bulletin board, but received a copyright infringement notice from media company B and inquired to Law firm Veat about how to deal with it. In response, Law firm Veat referred to the copyright law, Supreme Court precedent, and related legal theories to determine whether the newspaper article posted by Company A was subject to copyright and the possibility of Company A’s posting action violating the copyright law, and provided Company A with legal guidelines that it should follow.
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Law firm Veat