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Copyright Act 2019, news and current-events exceptions to copyrightsince 4 lines

Copyright Act 2019 (Act No. 17 of 2019), ss. 19(c), 29, 35 · Read the law's page

  • You need not obtain permission to use news of the day or miscellaneous facts having the character of mere items of press information: they are excluded from copyright protection (s. 19(c)).
  • You may copy or communicate to the public a newspaper article, periodical, lecture, speech or similar work, or excerpts of a work seen or heard while reporting a current event, to report current events, if you take no more than reporting justifies and acknowledge the source and the author's name (s. 35).
  • Do not use the reporting exception to copy a newspaper article, periodical or similar work where the copyright owner has expressly prohibited that use (s. 35).
  • You may quote from a lawfully published work, compatibly with fair practice and without exceeding the extent its purpose justifies in a way that unreasonably prejudices the owner's legitimate interest, only for caricature, parody or imitation, with a reference to the source and the author's name (s. 29).

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