Use standards with legal certainty
Standards are protected by copyright. If a standard is purchased as a single document, it is only permissible for one person to use the document at one workstation for copyright reasons. As soon as several colleagues are working with a standard, usage licenses are required.
Austrian Standards offers solutions that allow you to access your standards within your company in a legally compliant manner. You can purchase user licenses for your standards based on the number of employees, sites, number of documents and regulatory authorities. Or you can choose the cheapest and easiest way: Use standards in a legally compliant manner with our affordable online management tools for standards.
Would you like to find out how you can set yourself up in a legally compliant way and work with standards more easily?
Digital management of your standards
Economical
You save money compared to purchasing individual standards.
Customised
You can put together your own individual portfolio of standards.
Centralised
You can access your standards anytime and anywhere.
Up-to-date
You remain constantly up to date and always work with the latest standards.
Organised
You benefit from practical additional features (e.g. search, filter, notes).
Legally compliant
You no longer need to worry about user licenses.
Copyrights protect the rights of the creator of a text.As such, standards are copyright-protected in a similar way to the protection afforded by music and images rights. Reproduction – be it in the form of copying, printing, filming, transcribing or scanning – requires an agreement.
Copyrights to standards can be infringed within a company in number of different ways. A few examples of these are:
Making standards available in digital form, e.g.
- making them available on network drives
- Making them available via document management systems
- Publishing them on the intranet
- Publishing them on websites on the internet
Reproducing or passing them on internally and externally, e.g.
- copying standards in text form
- Forwarding them by email
- Forwarding them on data carriers (memory sticks, CDs, etc.)
- Digitisation (scanning, copying, photographing, etc.)
Editing standards, e.g.
- translation into other languages
If standards are used, care must therefore be taken to identify which usage licences exist (single-user or multi-user licence) and how acquired standards may be used without infringing copyright.
An exception applies to standards that are part of laws or regulations. These are not subject to copyright protection because they form part of a legal provision and are therefore a freely available document under copyright law. Such standards may therefore be used without restriction and without authorisation.
- Flyer Dos und Don'ts bei Mehrfachlizenzen (PDF - 0.3 mb, German only)
- Flyer Rechtssicherer Umgang mit Standards (PDF - 1 mb, German only)
Use standards with legal certainty
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