Reuses other publishers' content, in Rwanda

Law N° 055/2024 of 20/06/2024 on the Protection of Intellectual Property, arts. 282, 293, 297 · 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, official texts of a legislative, administrative or judicial nature, or any idea, procedure, system, method of operation, concept, principle, discovery or mere data: article 282 excludes them from protection.
• You may reproduce by the press, broadcast or communicate to the public an article published in newspapers or periodicals on current economic, political, social or religious topics, or a broadcast work of the same character, without the author's consent or payment of royalties, unless that right is expressly reserved (art. 297(1)(a)).
• You may reproduce or communicate to the public, to report short current events, a work seen or heard during such an event, to the extent the intended informatory purpose justifies (art. 297(1)(b)).
• You may reproduce in the press, broadcast or otherwise communicate to the public political speeches, lectures, addresses, sermons or similar works delivered in public, or speeches delivered during legal proceedings, to the extent justified by the purpose of providing current information (art. 297(1)(c)).
• Indicate the source and the author's name, as far as practicable, for each use under article 297.
• You may quote a short part of a published work, without authorization or payment, if the use is compatible with fair practice, does not exceed the extent its purpose justifies, and indicates the source and the author's name where it appears in the work quoted (art. 293).
• Do not assume these exceptions cover an aggregator's systematic reproduction of headlines and snippets: no reported Rwandan decision applies them to it.