Publisher Relations
Last updated: May 19, 2026
Want your channel covered by AVALW News?
We are looking for television channels and broadcasters worldwide who want their news coverage to reach a global audience.
If you operate a news channel and would like AVALW News to monitor your broadcasts, attribute your reporting, and bring your stories to readers in 45+ countries, we want to hear from you. Every article we produce from your broadcasts will clearly identify your channel as the source, driving recognition and audience to your brand.
Contact us: office@avalw.com with subject "Broadcast Partnership"
How we work
AVALW News operates the AVALW Live Protocol, an AI-powered newsroom that monitors publicly available live television broadcasts and writes original journalism based on the facts heard. We function exactly as any human reporter, journalist, blogger, or news website does when they watch a news broadcast and write their own article about what they learned.
This is not new or unusual. Every day, hundreds of thousands of journalists, bloggers, news websites, and social media users around the world watch television news and write their own version of the story. A blogger in Tokyo watches CNN and writes about it in Japanese. A newspaper in Bucharest watches France 24 and reports the story in Romanian. A news website in Seoul watches BBC and publishes their own take. This is the foundation of how news spreads globally and has been standard journalistic practice for over a century.
AVALW does exactly the same thing, at scale, using AI. We watch publicly available broadcasts, understand the facts being reported, and write completely original articles in our own words. We do not copy any text, we do not replay any audio, we do not redistribute any video. We write original journalism, just faster.
The legal foundation
The right to watch public broadcasts and report on the facts heard is protected by law in every country where we operate. Below is the comprehensive legal framework across all jurisdictions relevant to AVALW's operations:
International Treaties
- Berne Convention, Article 2(8) (182 member countries): "News of the day" and "miscellaneous facts having the character of mere items of press information" are explicitly excluded from copyright protection. This is the global foundation: facts are free.
- TRIPS Agreement, Article 9(2) (WTO, 164 members): Copyright protection extends to expressions, not to ideas, procedures, methods of operation, or mathematical concepts. Facts reported on television are ideas and information, not protectable expression.
- Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Article 19: Everyone has the right to seek, receive, and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.
European Union
- European Media Freedom Act (EMFA, 2024): Protects journalistic independence and the right to report freely on public information across all 27 EU member states. Prohibits interference with editorial decisions.
- EU Copyright Directive 2019/790, Article 15: The press publishers' right does not apply to private or non-commercial uses by individual users, nor to acts of hyperlinking. Facts and short extracts for journalistic reporting remain free.
- EU AI Act (Regulation 2024/1689): Establishes transparency rules for AI-generated content. AVALW complies by clearly labeling articles as AI-generated and attributing broadcast sources.
- Charter of Fundamental Rights of the EU, Article 11: Freedom of expression and information, including the freedom to receive and impart information without interference by public authority.
- InfoSoc Directive 2001/29/EC, Article 5(3)(c): Permits reproduction and communication to the public for the purpose of reporting current events, to the extent justified by the informatory purpose.
Romania (AVALW Headquarters)
- Romanian Constitution, Article 30: Freedom of expression is inviolable. Freedom of the press is guaranteed.
- Law 8/1996 on Copyright, Article 33(1)(e): Use of works for the purpose of reporting current events is permitted without the author's consent.
- Audiovisual Law 504/2002: Guarantees the public's right to information through audiovisual media.
United States
- First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution: Freedom of the press is a constitutionally protected right. Listening to public broadcasts and writing original articles is protected journalistic activity.
- Copyright Act, 17 U.S.C. § 102(b): Copyright does not extend to ideas, procedures, processes, systems, methods of operation, concepts, principles, or discoveries. Facts cannot be copyrighted.
- Fair Use Doctrine, 17 U.S.C. § 107: Use of copyrighted material for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, and scholarship is not an infringement. AVALW's original reporting based on broadcast facts is protected fair use.
- Feist Publications v. Rural Telephone (1991): Supreme Court ruling that facts are not copyrightable and that copyright only protects original creative expression, not the underlying facts or data.
- International News Service v. Associated Press (1918): While establishing the "hot news" misappropriation doctrine, the Court confirmed that news facts themselves are public property once published.
United Kingdom
- Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, Section 30(2): Fair dealing with a work for the purpose of reporting current events does not infringe copyright, provided sufficient acknowledgement is given.
- Human Rights Act 1998, Article 10: Right to freedom of expression, including the freedom to receive and impart information.
Japan
- Copyright Act, Article 41: Permits reporting on current events seen or heard in broadcasts. Works seen or heard in the course of reporting may be reproduced or communicated to the public to the extent justified by the informatory purpose.
- Japanese Constitution, Article 21: Freedom of speech, press, and all other forms of expression are guaranteed.
South Korea
- Copyright Act, Article 26: Reporting on current events using works seen or heard in the course of the reporting is permitted.
- Copyright Act, Article 7(5): Facts or data that are mere reproductions of news reports of the day are not protected by copyright.
India
- Copyright Act 1957, Section 52(1)(a)(iii): Fair dealing with a literary, dramatic, musical, or artistic work for the purpose of reporting current events is not copyright infringement.
- Indian Constitution, Article 19(1)(a): All citizens have the right to freedom of speech and expression, which includes the freedom of the press.
Brazil
- Lei 9.610/1998, Article 46(I): Reproduction of news and informative articles published in periodicals or broadcast media does not constitute copyright infringement when the reproduction includes the author's name.
- Brazilian Constitution, Article 5(XIV): Access to information is guaranteed to all.
Turkey
- Law on Intellectual and Artistic Works (No. 5846), Article 36: Reporting on daily events by means of press, radio, television, or similar media is permitted.
- Turkish Constitution, Article 28: The press is free and shall not be censored.
Germany
- Urheberrechtsgesetz (UrhG), § 49: Press reviews and other current reports are permitted. Articles on political, economic, or religious topics of the day that have been broadcast may be reproduced for reporting purposes.
- Grundgesetz, Article 5: Freedom of the press and freedom of reporting by means of broadcasts are guaranteed.
France
- Code de la Propriété Intellectuelle, Article L122-5(3)(c): Analyses and short quotations justified by the critical, polemical, educational, scientific, or informatory character of the work are permitted.
- Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, Article 11: Free communication of ideas and opinions is one of the most precious rights of man.
Australia
- Copyright Act 1968, Section 42: Fair dealing with a literary, dramatic, musical, or artistic work for the purpose of reporting news does not constitute copyright infringement.
Canada
- Copyright Act, Section 29.2: Fair dealing for the purpose of news reporting does not infringe copyright if the source and author are mentioned.
- Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, Section 2(b): Freedom of thought, belief, opinion, and expression, including freedom of the press.
United Arab Emirates
- Federal Decree-Law No. 38/2021 on Copyright, Article 6(3): News and reports on current events of an informative nature are excluded from copyright protection.
- UAE Media Law (Federal Decree-Law No. 15/2020): Regulates media activities while preserving the right to report on public information.
Saudi Arabia
- Royal Decree M/41 (Copyright Law), Article 6: Broadcasts of daily news and events of a news nature are excluded from copyright protection.
Albania
- Law No. 35/2016 on Copyright, Article 27: Use of works for the purpose of informing the public about current events is permitted without the author's consent.
- Albanian Constitution, Article 22: Freedom of expression and freedom of the press are guaranteed.
China
- Copyright Law of the PRC, Article 24(3): For the purpose of reporting current events, it is permissible to quote or reproduce works that have already been published, to an unavoidable extent.
Thailand
- Copyright Act B.E. 2537, Section 34: Reproduction for news reporting through mass media is permitted.
Mexico
- Federal Copyright Law (Ley Federal del Derecho de Autor), Article 148(IV): Reproduction of news, articles, and current commentaries published by press, radio, or television is permitted for informational purposes.
Argentina
- Law 11.723, Article 27: News of general interest may be freely used, provided the source is cited.
Philippines
- Intellectual Property Code (RA 8293), Section 184(c): The reporting of current events, including reporting through photographs, cinematography, or broadcasting, to the extent necessary for the purpose, is fair use.
Indonesia
- Copyright Law No. 28/2014, Article 44(1)(c): Use of works and related rights products for the purpose of news is not considered copyright infringement.
The principle is universal
In every legal system in the world, the same principle holds: no one owns the facts. If a broadcaster reports that a bridge collapsed in Hatay, that an election was held in Seoul, or that a storm is approaching Tokyo, anyone in the world has the right to write their own article about it. This is how journalism works and has always worked. AVALW does exactly this, at scale.
What we do with your broadcasts
AVALW monitors only publicly available, freely broadcast television signals:
- Audio from public TV news channels, transcribed in real time on our own servers
- No audio is stored permanently or redistributed
- No video is recorded, stored, or redistributed
We do not:
- Access paywalled content or bypass any access controls
- Scrape, copy, or store any written text from any source
- Reproduce verbatim passages from any broadcast or publication
- Record, archive, or redistribute any broadcast content
- Remove or obscure source attribution
Our AI listens to public broadcasts, extracts only uncopyrightable facts (events, dates, names, figures, quotes from public officials), and writes entirely original articles with its own structure and phrasing.
Cooperation and Contact
AVALW monitors only publicly available television broadcasts, the same information accessible to any viewer worldwide. While there is no legal obligation to exclude public broadcasts from journalistic monitoring, we value good relationships with broadcasters. If a broadcaster wishes to discuss how their content is referenced, we welcome the conversation:
- Email office@avalw.com with subject line "Publisher Opt-Out"
- Include your publication name and domain(s) to be excluded
- We will confirm removal within 72 hours
Once opted out, no further content from your publication will be indexed, referenced, or used as a source in any AVALW article. Existing articles that reference your publication will retain attribution links but no new articles will be created using your content.
DMCA & Copyright Concerns
If you believe any AVALW content infringes your copyright, please follow our DMCA Takedown Procedure (Section 8 of our Terms). We respond to valid notices within 72 hours.