TSIC Activity

58134

Licensing activities for newspapers, journals and periodicals

What this activity covers

This activity involves managing reproduction rights for newspapers, journals, and magazines for commercial purposes.

  • Copyright management — Obtaining copyright protection for publications
  • Rights licensing — Licensing rights to reproduce content
  • Content collection — Collecting original works for reproduction

Not included here

  • Publishing, distributing or publishing newspapers operated by a publishing house. See activity 58131.
  • Publishing, distributing or publishing journals and magazines operated by a publishing house. See activity 58132.
  • Activities of individual writers in newspapers, journals and magazines. See activity 90001.

Foreign ownership

List 1: Closed to foreign majorityinherited from 5813

Newspaper business, radio broadcasting station business or television station business

FBA B.E. 2542, List 1 (1)

Auto-mapped, verify against the Act. These TSIC mappings are indicative, not legal advice; the schedules of the Foreign Business Act B.E. 2542 are the authority. See the full foreign ownership reference.

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