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Reuses other publishers' content, in Belarus
Law on Copyright and Related Rights, Free Use of Press Articles and Quotationsince 4 lines
Law No. 262-Z of , arts. 32 and 33, on Copyright and Related Rights (as amended) · Read the law's page
- You may reproduce excerpts of a lawfully published work, in the original or in translation, as a quotation for research, educational, polemical, critical or informational purposes, to the extent the purpose justifies.
- You may reproduce in a print outlet, or broadcast or communicate to the public, a lawfully published newspaper or magazine article on current economic, political, social or religious affairs, or a like work lawfully broadcast or placed online for public information, unless the author or rightsholder has specially prohibited it.
- You may reproduce publicly delivered political speeches, addresses and reports, and works seen or heard during a current event as part of a review of that event, to the extent justified by an informational purpose.
- Do not assume any of these reaches a systematic online news aggregator: no reported Belarusian decision applies them to one rather than to an individual quoting or reprinting a published work.
Law No. 455-Z, Information System Operator's Duty to Protect Information (Article 40)in force5 lines
Law of the Republic of Belarus No. 455-Z of On Information, Informatization and Protection of Information (as amended by Law No. 209-Z of ), art. 40 · Read the law's page
- This binds you if you operate an information system or provide information services through one, reaching Belarus or established there, whatever your sector or size: Law No. 455-Z defines an information system operator broadly and lists a private legal entity or an individual entrepreneur among the subjects of information relations it reaches.
- Ensure the integrity and safety of the information your system holds.
- Take measures to prevent disclosure, loss, distortion, destruction, or unauthorized modification of that information, and to prevent blocking of legitimate access to it.
- Where necessary, take measures to restore information that has been lost.
- This duty runs independently of Belarus's comprehensive personal-data statute, Law No. 99-Z, which carries its own security and breach-notice duties recorded separately under the privacy topic; article 40 reaches whatever information your system holds, not only personal data.