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Part 2 · Related rights  ›  Division 7 · Protection of publishers of press publications › Section 87f

Definitions

(1) ʻPress publicationʼ means any collection comprising mainly written works of a journalistic nature which may also contain other works or other subject matter protected under this Act and which

1.  constitutes an individual item within a periodical or regularly updated publication under a single title, such as a newspaper or a general or special interest magazine,

2.  has the purpose of providing the general public with information related to news or other topics and

3.  is published in any media under the initiative, editorial responsibility and control of a publisher of press publications within the meaning of subsection (2).

Periodicals which are published for scientific or academic purposes are not press publications.

(2) ʻPublisher of press publicationsʼ means any person who produces a press publication. If the press publication was produced by an enterprise, the owner of the enterprise is deemed to be the producer.

(3) For the purposes of this Division, ʻinformation society serviceʼ means services within the meaning of Article 1 (1) (b) of Directive (EU) 2015/1535 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 9 September 2015 laying down a procedure for the provision of information in the field of technical regulations and of rules on Information Society services (OJ L 241, 17.9.2015, p. 1).

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