Amendment to the Conditions on the Commercial Exploitation of Supreme Court Decisions

August 17, 2004

A.M. No. 04-7-06-SC

Gentlemen :

Quoted hereunder, for your information, is a resolution of the Court En Banc dated 17 August 2004.

"A.M. No. 04-7-06-SC. — Re: Conditions on the Commercial Exploitation of Supreme Court Decisions. — Acting on the Memorandum dated 17 August 2004 of the Committee on Computerization and the Committee on Library and Printing Services, recommending the amendments of the Conditions on the Commercial Exploitation of Supreme Court Decisions, the Court Resolved to APPROVE the proposed amendments, to wit:

1. Instead of a deposit of two additional copies of the legal treatise and student textbook, the deposit of two copies with the Supreme Court Library in accordance with Section 191 of the Intellectual Property Code shall be sufficient. At present, only a handful of authors deposit two copies of their work with the Supreme Court Library. Thus, requiring a deposit of two additional copies would not be advisable.

2. Only compilations of all Supreme Court decisions covering a period of more than 20 years shall be subject to the conditions. Thus, compilations on special topics like maritime law, or compilations covering short periods, shall not be covered by the conditions.

The Amendments shall take effect immediately.

In this connection, the Clerk of Court is hereby directed to PUBLISH the amendments in a newspaper of general circulation. Sandoval-Gutierrez, J .,on leave. (113). IcSADC

Very truly yours,

 

(SGD.) LUZVIMINDA D. PUNOClerk of Court

By:

 

(SGD.) MA. LUISA D. VILLARAMAAssistant Clerk of CourtSupreme Court of the Philippines