Media houses warn content pirates

ZIMBABWE’S top media houses have threatened to take legal action against digital platforms wont on stealing their content.

In a legal notice yesterday, ZimInd Publishers, Associated Newspapers of Zimbabwe, Zimpapers and Business Times said media houses had copyrights provided for in the Copyrights and Neighbouring Rights Act [Chapter 26:05] which protect their content from theft.

But some social media accounts have been “mining” content from the long-established media houses without their consent and distributing it without attributing the source of the information.

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