Talk:Copyright law of the Philippines

Copyright on the Commons

Someone should update Commons:Derivative works and Commons:Licensing. --evrik ^(talk) 18:07, 17 October 2007 (UTC)

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Government copyright -- apparent error in article

This edit elsewhere caught my eye, and sent me here. I see that the Government copyright section says that Sec. 176 of RA8293 says that the exemption of governmental works from copyright protection is limited to works of "legislative, administrative, or judicial nature ...". This appears to be an error. Those quoted words are contained in Sec. 175, Unprotected Subject Matter, under CHAPTER IV, WORKS NOT PROTECTED. Section 176, Works of the Government, says, "No copyright shall subsist in any work of the Government of the Philippines. ...". Wtmitchell (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 04:16, 3 January 2012 (UTC)

@Wtmitchell it is a contentious matter for Wikipedians. Commons already accepts this as a public domain license but enwiki still treats the non-commercial restriction as not meeting the Definition of Free Cultural Works and is a fair use-able content.

No copyright subsists and is indeed a fact, but a prior-permission condition exists if the works are to be exploited commercially. No permission is needed for personal, private study, research et cetera.

This has to be addressed next, after the introduction of FOP in the Philippines. I can see more government websites with "all rights reserved" copyright statement, like Senate, PNA (current consensus states PNA content is no longer acceptable there, unless the source is freely-licensed), and various LGU websites, like that of Pangasinan province.

I am aware that this may not be the appropriate forum for such topic. JWilz12345 (Talk|Contrib's.) 01:11, 3 April 2023 (UTC)

Article 176 - what is "government"?

Is government restricted to national government, or is it every administrative body? For instance, do I need approval from my local municipality before I can incorporate its seal etc? John of Cromer in Philippines (talk) mytime= Thu 13:15, wikitime= 05:15, 25 April 2013 (UTC)

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