<h1>Liability, copyright and defamation risks over 50th anniversary cultural event: organizer, distributor and news agency responsibilities</h1> A cultural event organized by a regional literary academy celebrated its 50th anniversary with performances, panel discussions and a concluding national anthem; the distributed text is a press release supplied under an arrangement with a media distributor and carries a disclaimer that the news agency assumes no editorial responsibility. Legal issues include the contractual allocation of liability and responsibility between organizer, distributor and news agency under that arrangement, potential copyright and public performance rights for musical and literary works presented, and reputational or defamation risks from quoted commentary, which the disclaimer seeks to limit.