Duty LXD-2055
Reuses other publishers' content, in the Philippines
Intellectual Property Code, Fair Use of a Copyrighted Worksince 2 lines
Republic Act No. 8293 (1997), Section 185 · Read the law's page
- Weigh the purpose and character of a use of a copyrighted work, the nature of the work, the amount used, and the effect on the work's market before relying on fair use to reproduce it for training data or aggregation.
- Reproducing a computer program's code to achieve interoperability with another independently created program may also qualify as fair use.
Intellectual Property Code, Compilation of Data and the News-of-the-Day Exclusionsince 1 line
Republic Act No. 8293 (1997), Sections 172-173, 175 · Read the law's page
- Scraping or reproducing a database or compilation of facts is outside this Code's protection unless the selection, coordination, or arrangement of its contents is itself original; mere data and news of the day carry no protection regardless of arrangement.
Intellectual Property Code, News-of-the-Day Exclusion and Fair-Use Reproduction of Current Eventssince 4 lines
Republic Act No. 8293 (1997), Sections 175, 184 · Read the law's page
- You need not obtain permission to use news of the day or miscellaneous facts having the character of mere items of press information: section 175 excludes them from copyright protection.
- You may quote from a published work, including quotations from newspaper articles and periodicals in the form of press summaries, where compatible with fair use and you mention the source and the author's name (s. 184.1(b)).
- You may reproduce or communicate to the public by mass media an article on a current political, social, economic, scientific or religious topic, or a public address of the same nature, for information purposes, if you clearly indicate the source and the rightsholder has not expressly reserved the use (s. 184.1(c)).
- You may reproduce and communicate to the public a literary, scientific or artistic work as part of a report of current events, by photography, cinematography or broadcasting, to the extent necessary for that purpose (s. 184.1(d)).