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The question, and whether research is the right instrument for it.
Brussels · Since 1995 · EN, FR, NL
A press review
A press review
needs a licence.
Copying articles into a monitoring report is reproduction, and in Belgium that needs authorisation from the rightsholders. Summary, reference and citation do not. We work inside that line and we tell clients where it falls before taking a brief.
- 1995working since
- 30 yrin Brussels
- BCEregistered
- Clearedcopyright
What we do
Four services, sources always named
Every brief is agreed in writing, and findings come back with the source and the date of each one.
Desk research and documentation
Finding, checking and organising information on a defined question, with every source named.
See the programPress and publication monitoring
Following a subject across press and publications, delivered as summaries and references.
See the programWriting and editing
Writing, rewriting and editing material in English, French and Dutch.
See the programDocument production
Producing finished documents for publication, with third-party rights checked.
See the program
How it works
How we work
A written brief, sources named in every delivery, copyright settled before a monitoring report is circulated, and the gaps reported rather than smoothed over.
Written brief
Scope, deadline, fee and what falls outside.
Research and verification
Sources logged, cross-checked where possible.
Delivery
Findings with sources and dates, including what was not found.
Working together
Ways to work with us
Quoted per brief after a first conversation. Rightsholder licences, where needed, are the client's and are priced separately.
One brief
A single question, researched and delivered.
- Scope written first
- Every source named
- Gaps reported honestly
- Fixed fee agreed
- Delivered to a date
Ongoing monitoring
A subject followed over time, within copyright.
- Sources and frequency agreed
- Summaries and references
- Copyright position settled first
- One point of contact
- Reviewed each quarter
What we do not do
Said plainly, because the law reserves it.
- No reproduction without a licence
- No legal advice: the Bar
- No tax or accountancy: ITAA
- No investment advice: FSMA
- No findings we cannot source
Every engagement is quoted after a free consultation. No subscription.
How we work
A research office, working inside copyright
TIMESAVER is a company incorporated under Belgian law, registered with the Crossroads Bank for Enterprises under enterprise number 0455.989.971, based at 9 Quai a la Houille in 1000 Brussels and working since September 1995 under a single continuous management. The work is research, documentation, editorial production and publishing, in English, French and Dutch.
One rule shapes the monitoring work more than any other. Belgian and European copyright permits short quotation, citation and analysis; it does not permit systematic reproduction of press articles. A monitoring product that copies articles needs a licence from the rightsholders, and that licence belongs to the client, not to us. So we deliver summaries, references and citations unless a client holds one and shows it. Research, equally, is not advice: we establish what identified sources say on an identified date, and legal, tax and investment conclusions belong to the professions entitled to give them.
Frequently asked
The questions we get most
Can you just send us the articles themselves?
Not unless you hold a licence from the rightsholders. Reproducing press articles in a monitoring report is reproduction under copyright, not citation, and it requires authorisation from the collecting societies that represent the press in Belgium. We can deliver summaries, references and short citations, which the law permits, and we will work to your licence terms if you have one.
Why do you list what you could not find?
Because it changes how much weight a finding deserves. A report that only shows hits reads as more conclusive than the evidence allows. Telling you that three of six sources were silent, or that an archive was inaccessible, is what lets you judge whether to act on the rest.
Can you tell us what the rules mean for our situation?
We can tell you what the texts say and where they are published. What they mean for your situation is legal advice, which is reserved to the Bar in Belgium, and tax questions are reserved to professionals registered with the ITAA. We prepare the dossier so that consultation starts from something solid rather than from scratch.
How fast can you turn a brief around?
It depends on how many sources have to be checked and how reachable they are, and we give a date once the brief is written rather than before. We would rather commit to a date we can hold than to the date you were hoping for.
Do you work in Dutch and French as well as English?
Yes, in all three, which in Brussels is less a selling point than a practical necessity. Where a document will be published in more than one language we flag the passages that will not survive translation intact rather than discovering it at proof stage.
Who owns what you produce for us?
That is settled in the written brief before work starts, and it is the kind of thing that causes arguments precisely because nobody raised it. Third-party material inside a document stays with its rightsholder whatever the brief says, which is why we check and record those rights.
Got a question that needs researching?
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