What are the works that are not protected by copyright
1. Laws, regulations, resolutions, decisions and orders of state agencies and other documents of a legislative, administrative, or judicial nature and their official official translations are not protected.
2. Current affairs news; that is, pure factual news, which refers to reporting only the process, time, place and person of an event, and does not indicate the reporter’s identity. Opinion news and pure factual news can be disseminated through mass media such as newspapers, magazines, television, and radio. The means can be text or photos. This kind of pure factual news should be classified as current affairs news reports and is not protected.
3. Calendars, general tables of numbers, general tables and methods," are not protected.
Among them, the "Copyright" Law stipulates that "current affairs news" is not protected by the Copyright Law, but the communicator should indicate the source. Therefore, "single factual news" is not protected by the Copyright Law. The use of "single factual news" in various forms such as citation and rebroadcasting is not protected by the Copyright Law. It is considered a copyright infringement.
