Copyright

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Copyright /ˈkɒpɪrʌɪt/ (n.)
see also: Information
Template:Copyright and confidence

Examples

Investor presentation materials

These present:

• a low risk of copyright infringement (even if you do “breach copyright”, who is going to sue you and what would their loss be?)
• a fairly low risk of breach of confidence (I guess you might violate securities laws by distributing materials in certain places)
• a fairly low risk from a market abuse perspective (by its nature investor materials are designed as a pitch to outsiders – and in those IBD scenarios where it might not be, you would be confi’d up to kingdom come anyway.

FT and Bloomberg articles

Commercially published articles (also index outputs and so on) present:

• a real risk of copyright infringement: here the very business motivation for creating them is that people who read them will be prepared to pay for them
• a low risk of breach of confidence: By definition this information is in the public domain – anyone who wants to pay for it can have it.

See also

• Confidence
• Confidentiality agreement
• Email signoff