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§560.538 Authorized transactions necessary and ordinarily incident to publishing.
(a) To the extent that such activities are not exempt from this part, and subject to the restrictions set forth in paragraphs (b) through (d) of this section, U.S. persons are authorized to engage in all transactions necessary and ordinarily incident to the publishing and marketing of manuscripts, books, journals, and newspapers in paper or electronic format (collectively, "written publications"). This section does not apply if the parties to the transactions described in this paragraph include the Government of Iran. For the purposes of this section, the term "Government of Iran" includes the state and the Government of Iran, as well as any political subdivision, agency, or instrumentality thereof, which includes the Central Bank of Iran, and any person acting or purporting to act directly or indirectly on behalf of any of the foregoing with respect to the transactions...
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[UPDATE - on 5-2-22, 589.518 added a publishing GL for the Crimea embargo.]
Notes common to the ITSR, SYSR and CACR Publishing GLs (see below for provision-specific comments):
The ITSR, SySR and CACR GL for transactions necessary and ordinarily incident to publishing are, with some exceptions identified below, of virtually identical scope.
1) Except for the SySR version, this is one of the rare GLs that contain the qualifier "[t]o the extent that such activities are not exempt from this part;" in recognition of the fact that this GL owes its existence to a lawsuit alleging that OFAC’s restrictions on publishing activities amounted to regulation ultra vires of...