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Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen: No Copying from Press Releases!
This sounds like something off a press release or official site - possible copyright violation?
:A press release should not be a copyright violation -- it's public information.::(IANALB) A press release has copyright protection unless its author (or usually the author's employer) specifically places it in the public domain. The fact that it is (whether explicitly or implicitly) intended for use, paraphrased or verbatim, by the journalistic press, does not change that. A journalist could, perhaps, with a good intellectual-property lawyer, claim that industry practice and the distribution list of a relesase demonstrated an intent to convey permission to republish
in the journalist's paper or magazine, but even so it would be a big stretch from there to claiming the underlying copyright had been voided.:: Material whose use is authorized in specific conditions, other than by executing a GFDL, may not be included in GFDL works. And arguments that something entered public domain other than by explicit law or copyright-holder act are wildly irresponsible until OKed by a good intellectual-property lawyer.::-- 16:55, 2004 Jun 3 (UTC)
:::Yes, but a press release is (a) inherently POV, and (b) pretty dumb-sounding. Perhaps the sort of thing we'd like to quote, but definitely not the sort of thing we'd like to incorporate wholesale. | 09:37, 2004 Dec 23 (UTC)----
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