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Copyright Policy

Last updated: April 15, 2026

This copyright policy sets out how users are permitted to use our content and also explains the types of use that require the purchase of additional licences. This policy forms part of our terms and conditions. Thank you for reading this policy: our ability to invest in high quality journalism depends on our users complying with it. We reserve the right to change our copyright policy from time to time by publishing an updated policy on chiefbrief.org, which shall become effective and replace any previous policy with effect from publication. This version of the copyright policy was published on April 15, 2026.

What is copyright?

Copyright law gives the copyright owner the exclusive right to control the use of copyright protected works. All of the material published on our website and other digital/wireless platforms is protected by copyright law and should only be used as set out in the "How may I use The Chief Brief content?" section below. Use that is made without our permission may therefore infringe our copyright which can result in personal and corporate liability. Where we state below that something is not allowed or permitted, then to do so is a breach of our terms and conditions: that is, it is a breach of contract, and may also violate copyright law.

How may I use The Chief Brief content?

You may do the following:

  • View our content for your personal use on any device that is compatible with chiefbrief.org (this might be your PC, laptop, smartphone, tablet or other mobile device) and store our content on that device for your personal use;
  • Print single copies of articles on paper for your personal use;
  • Share links to articles by using any sharing tools we make available.

How may I republish or redistribute The Chief Brief content?

Except as set out above, you may not copy The Chief Brief content from chiefbrief.org or any third party source of chiefbrief.org content such as news aggregators and you may not republish or redistribute full text articles, for example by pasting them into emails or republishing them in any media, including websites, newsletters or intranets.

We recognise that users of the Internet want to share information with others. We therefore permit limited republishing and redistribution of The Chief Brief content as set out below provided that this does not create a Substitute for The Chief Brief's own products or services. We define a Substitute as a product or service that reduces the need for users or other third parties to pay for The Chief Brief content directly, or which creates revenue from the The Chief Brief's content to the detriment of The Chief Brief's own ability to generate revenues from that content.

As long as you do not create a Substitute, you may do the following:

  • Publish online, the original The Chief Brief headline and a link to the article and the first 140 characters of an article (what we call teaser text);
  • Forward the original headlines, links and teaser text to other individuals;
  • Download our RSS feeds and view them for your personal use. We currently publish headlines and teaser text within our RSS feeds. You may also make an RSS feed available to third parties, users within an organisation you work for or users of a website that you publish, on condition that you comply with the restrictions set out below.

The restrictions that apply to use of our RSS feeds are that you:

  • only publish the feed for access via a web-based browser.
  • do not use or publish the feed as part of a paid for service or for other commercial gain.
  • publish the feed as it is made available on chiefbrief.org, so that you only include the headline and teaser content, and ensure that the headline links back to the full text article on chiefbrief.org.
  • attribute the feed to The Chief Brief as "© The Chief Brief [year]".
  • do not archive the feed or any of its content.
  • comply with our guidelines on usage of The Chief Brief logos.

Am I allowed to copy or summarise limited parts of The Chief Brief full text content?

As specified above you may not republish or redistribute full text articles (except as permitted by any sharing tools we make available).

You may however republish or redistribute "Summaries" of The Chief Brief articles if you comply with the conditions set out below. "Summaries" can be either an "extract" or an "abstract". By "extract" we mean 30 words copied verbatim from an The Chief Brief article which are inserted into a longer original work. By "abstract" we mean a 30 word non-verbatim summary of the news or facts reported in The Chief Brief article which does not form part of a longer work and does not misrepresent the original The Chief Brief article.

These are the conditions you must comply with in order to produce summaries:

  • you source The Chief Brief as the author of any article from which you have derived a summary by way of an attribution such as "[journalist name] at The Chief Brief reported that", with a hypertext link from the word "The Chief Brief" to the original story published on chiefbrief.org;
  • in the case of abstracts, you make clear that the abstract has been produced by you by stating "this abstract from The Chief Brief was produced by [name]", with a hypertext link from the word "The Chief Brief" to the original story published on chiefbrief.org;
  • you ensure that your summaries do not in whole or in part form a Substitute for The Chief Brief's own products and services (see above for how we define Substitute). The more summaries you create the greater the risk of substitution. No individual or organisation may create, republish or redistribute more than ten summaries in aggregate each day, each one sourced from a different The Chief Brief article that is published on the same day you create the summary;
  • you do not use or create summaries that promote or endorse any product or service; and
  • if The Chief Brief notifies you that it believes you are creating, republishing or redistributing summaries outside of these parameters, you shall immediately cease doing so and your rights to create summaries shall be regarded as having been withdrawn, unless/until The Chief Brief reaches an agreement with you regarding your use of The Chief Brief articles.

Please note that these rights do not extend to content, data or other material published by The Chief Brief that we licence from third parties (including wire services, stock exchange or other index providers) which you may not republish or redistribute.

How am I allowed to link to The Chief Brief content?

If you would like to link to chiefbrief.org, please read and comply with the following guidelines and all applicable laws. A site or service that links to chiefbrief.org:

  • may display The Chief Brief logo to indicate the source of the link, but must not otherwise use any The Chief Brief trade marks without permission from The Chief Brief;
  • must not remove, distort or otherwise alter the size or appearance of The Chief Brief logo;
  • may link to the homepage of chiefbrief.org, and, provided that you comply with this copyright policy, may also link to other pages of chiefbrief.org;
  • must not be a Substitute (as defined above);
  • must not in any way imply that The Chief Brief is endorsing it or its products or services;
  • must not misrepresent its relationship with The Chief Brief or present false information about The Chief Brief;
  • must not be a site or service that infringes any intellectual property or other right of any person or that otherwise does not comply with all relevant laws and regulations; and
  • must not be a site or service that contains content that could be construed as distasteful or offensive.

What am I not permitted to do with The Chief Brief content?

You cannot do anything other than make use of the content as set out above, unless you buy the appropriate licence (see below for details). By way of example only, this means that you cannot:

  • If you are a registered user or subscriber, share your user name and password (which includes PINs) with anyone else. A password is for one person's use. Sharing a password means a copy of our content may subsequently be made by someone who is not authorised to do so. Password sharing is a breach of our terms and conditions and is likely to result in an infringement of copyright. We monitor usage to detect password sharing.
  • Copy, publish or redistribute full text articles, photographs, graphics, tables or images in any way (except as permitted by any sharing tools we make available).
  • Create derivative works from our content, unless you are creating summaries as described above.
  • Photocopy or scan copies of articles.
  • Remove the copyright or trade mark notice from any copies of The Chief Brief content.
  • Use spidering technology or other datamining technologies to search and link to chiefbrief.org.
  • Create a database in electronic or structured manual from by systematically and/or regularly downloading, caching, printing and storing all or any The Chief Brief content (by spidering or otherwise).
  • Use any of our content or data (including any associated metadata) in any manner for any machine learning and/or artificial intelligence purposes, including without limitation for the purposes of training or development of artificial intelligence technologies or tools or machine learning language models, or otherwise for the purposes of using or in connection with the use of such technologies, tools or models to generate any data or content and/or to synthesise or combine with any other data or content.
  • Frame, harvest or scrape The Chief Brief content or otherwise access The Chief Brief content for similar purposes.
  • Use or attempt to use The Chief Brief content outside the parameters we set - depending on what subscription you have.

What about "fair dealing" or "fair use" – doesn't that allow me to copy things for the purpose of reporting news or current events?

Copyright law does allow, to a limited extent, republication for certain limited purposes, including the reporting of news or current events. We recommend that you take independent legal advice on the exact meaning of these terms if you want to rely on them. Unless your use of our content is permitted by this Copyright Policy, it is likely that we regard it as "unfair" and a breach of our terms and conditions.

If you wish to republish our content or have any questions, please email our republishing team directly at newsroom@chiefbrief.org

Questions?

If you have any questions on copyright please contact our team at newsroom@chiefbrief.org