News articles should be original to be eligible for copyright
05 May 2016 - 17:58
The high court in Johannesburg on Thursday held that the Copyright Act provided that literary works‚ including news articles‚ are eligible for copyright if they are original.The court found that Moneyweb had been able to prove that three of its seven articles used in part by Fin24 were original works.
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