Reuses other publishers' content, in Iceland

Höfundalög nr. 73/1972 (Copyright Act), 1., 2., 54. og 56. gr. · Read the law's page

• Get the author's permission before you copy a work, in whole or in part, or make it available to the public, in its original or altered form, in translation or other adaptation, subject to the limits the Act sets elsewhere (art. 2).
• Treat any direct or indirect, temporary or permanent making of a copy of a work, in whole or in part, by any method and in any form, as copying (art. 2).
• Treat offering copies for sale, rent or loan, otherwise distributing them to the public, showing copies publicly, or performing the work publicly, including making it available so that anyone can reach it from a place and at a time of their choosing, as making the work available to the public (art. 2).
• Treat a computer program as protected in the same way as a literary work (art. 1).
• Expect imprisonment of up to two years for intentional or grossly negligent acts contrary to the author's exclusive right (art. 54).
• Expect to pay damages if you breach the Act intentionally or negligently (art. 56).

Höfundalög nr. 73/1972 (Copyright Act), 14. gr. · Read the law's page

• You may quote, without the copyright owner's consent, from a published literary work (including a stage work) or a published film or musical work where the quotation is made in connection with criticism, science, general presentation or another recognised purpose.
• Keep the quotation within reasonable limits and represent the quoted material correctly; the provision sets no headline-length or short-extract cap beyond that fair-practice test and is not restricted to press or news content.
• You may publish images and drawings of published works of art on the same conditions.

Höfundalög nr. 73/1972 (Copyright Act), 15. gr. · Read the law's page

• You may reprint in a newspaper or periodical, or broadcast on radio, topical articles on economic, political or religious subjects taken from other newspapers or periodicals, and broadcast material of the same kind (art. 15).
• Do not reprint such an article where a notice with the articles, or in the broadcast, says that reprinting is prohibited (art. 15).
• Always name the source of a reprinted article (art. 15).
• You may publish in newspapers, periodicals, television and films images or drawings of published works of art in connection with an account of current events, but not works made for the purpose of being published in that way (art. 15).
• Do not assume this exception reaches an online aggregator: the provision speaks of newspapers, periodicals, radio, television and films.

Lög um vörumerki nr. 45/1997 (Trade Marks Act), 13., 14. og 40. gr. · Read the law's page

• Do not expect to register as a trade mark a name, logo or other mark that is liable to mislead people, for example about the nature, condition or geographical origin of goods or services (art. 13, item 7).
• Do not expect to register a mark that without authorisation contains a coat of arms or other state emblem, a flag, the emblem of an Icelandic municipality, an official inspection or quality mark, or anything liable to be mistaken for them (art. 13, item 8).
• Get the consent of the right holder concerned before registering a mark that gives reason to believe it refers to the name of an active business, another person's name or image (other than a long-dead person's), or a distinctive property name or a picture of the property (art. 14, item 4).
• Expect a court to be able to prohibit use of a trade mark that is misleading, in the form in which it is used (art. 40).