These rules are not intended to constitute legal advice. Given the wide range of News Releases available on www.packagingessentials.com , Packaging & Converting Essentials cannot be an expert in the specific intellectual property concerns regarding each news release, and we cannot and do not offer specific legal advice. These are general, common-sense rules that should be used as rules of thumb. If you have specific questions about the legality of your item, you should contact the intellectual rights owner or an intellectual property attorney.

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News release publishers themselves are ultimately and solely responsible for the of legality their News Release which appears on the Packaging & Converting Essentials website

Packaging & Converting Essentials shall retain complete discretion of judgement as to what kind of information to release on its site: Packaging & Converting Essentials shall in the process pay all due attention to respecting the copyrights that are associated with the information it decides to publish.

The user explicitly acknowledges cognisance of the fact that the information provided by him shall be made freely accessible to all of the users of the Packaging & Converting Essentials website.

News release publishers understand and accept the fact that no future rights can be derived from the fact that Packaging & Converting Essentials publishes submitted information or news releases nor that Packaging & Converting Essentials will continue to do so or continue to make this information available.

Intellectual Property Rights owners, can download a “Notice of claimed infringement on www.packagingessentials.com ” on this page

All News Release Publishers and users of Packaging & Converting Essentials agree and understand that Packaging & Converting Essentials can not review the news releases in content, form, … to prevent infringements on the rights of intellectual property holders and therefore, Packaging & Converting Essentials is a website as mentioned in art. 12 of the EU Directive nr. 2000/31/EG “Mere Conduit”

The services provided by Packaging & Converting Essentials consist of the transmission in a communication network of information provided by a recipient of the service, or the provision of access to a communication network,

The Publishers and users acknowledge, agree and understand that Packaging & Converting Essentials

(a) does not initiate the transmission;

(b) does not select the receiver of the transmission; and

(c) does not select or modify the information contained in the transmission.

The acts of transmission and of provision of access referred to above include the automatic, intermediate and transient storage of the information transmitted in so far as this takes place for the sole purpose of carrying out the transmission in the communication network, and provided that the information is not stored for any period longer than is reasonably necessary for the transmission.

Industrial property and intellectual property can be characterised by a dual nature, i.e. being at the same time national and international. Patent, in particular, and copyright protection are governed by national laws and rules of a given country. At the same time, international conventions ensure minimum rights and provide certain measures for enforcement of rights by the Contracting States, s.a. The Bern Convention.

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Last updated: March 18, 2010