Reuses other publishers' content, in the Comoros

Accord de Bangui instituant une Organisation Africaine de la Propriété Intellectuelle, Acte du 14 décembre 2015, Annexe VII (Propriété littéraire et artistique), art. 15 · Read the law's page

• The Bangui Agreement's Annex VII, in the Act of December 14, 2015, applies in Comoros as an African Intellectual Property Organization (OAPI) member state, where the Agreement and its Annexes take the place of national law on the matters they cover; Annex VII is a minimum normative framework.
• You need not obtain permission to use the news of the day or mere facts and data: Annex VII does not protect them (art. 6).
• You may reproduce by print or audiovisual press an economic, political or religious article published in a newspaper or periodical, or a broadcast work of the same character, without the author's authorization or payment, unless the right of reproduction, broadcasting or communication to the public has been expressly reserved (art. 15).
• Credit the source and the author's name where the source gives it.
• You may reproduce or make accessible to the public, to report current events, a work seen or heard in the course of the event, to the extent the informational purpose justifies.
• You may reproduce by print or audiovisual press political speeches, lectures, addresses, sermons and courtroom pleadings for information, unless their authors have expressly reserved their rights; the authors alone keep the right to publish collections of them.
• You may quote a lawfully published work in another work, crediting the source and author, if the quotation accords with good usage and does not exceed what its purpose justifies (art. 11).
• Do not assume the press exception reaches a systematic aggregator's reproduction of headlines and snippets: Annex VII does not say so.

Loi du 11 mars 1957 sur la propriété littéraire et artistique, art. 41 · Read the law's page

• You may make analyses and short quotations from a divulged work, and press reviews, without the author's permission where justified by the critical, polemical, pedagogical, scientific or informational character of the work they are incorporated into; clearly indicate the author's name and the source (Article 41).
• You may disseminate in full or in part, by press or broadcasting and for current-events information, public speeches delivered before political, administrative, judicial or academic assemblies and at public meetings of that character (Article 41).
• Expect no rule here on a press-publisher neighbouring right, a compelled-bargaining charge, a hot-news doctrine, linking or framing, or a text-and-data-mining reservation: the law says nothing on them.