Reuses other publishers' content, in Belgium

Code de droit économique, art. XI.216/2, inséré par la loi du 19 juin 2022 transposant partiellement la directive (UE) 2019/790, art. 15 (Moniteur belge, 1 août 2022) · Read the law's page

• Applies to you if you are an information-society service provider using a press publication of a press publisher established in an EU member state.
• Obtain the press publisher's authorisation before reproducing its press publication or making it available online; the publisher has the sole right to do so.
• Negotiate in good faith with the publisher over that use and the remuneration due; either side may refer an unresolved dispute to the Belgian Institute for Postal Services and Telecommunications, which can decide the remuneration and take a binding administrative decision.
• On the publisher's written request, give it updated, relevant and complete information on the number of consultations and the revenue you draw from its publications.
• You need not obtain authorisation for hyperlinking, the use of isolated words or very short extracts of a press publication, or works whose protection has expired.
• The right expires two years after the press publication was published, counted from 1 January of the following year, and does not apply to a press publication first published before 6 June 2019.

Avant-projet de loi modifiant les dispositions du Code civil relatives à la responsabilité du fait des produits défectueux, et insérant l’article 877/1 dans le Code judiciaire · Read the law's page

• Answer for a defective product under the Civil Code provisions on liability for defective products, which the draft amends; the draft also inserts Article 877/1 into the Judicial Code.