Reuses other publishers' content, in the Seychelles

Copyright Act, 2014 (Act No. 5 of 2014), ss. 6, 11, 14 (news-related free-use provisions) · 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: section 6(b) excludes them from copyright protection.
• You may quote from a work lawfully made available to the public, without the owner's authorisation, if the quotation is compatible with fair practice and does not exceed the extent its purpose justifies, and you indicate the source and the author's name where it appears in the source (s. 11).
• You may reproduce, broadcast or otherwise communicate to the public an article published in a newspaper or periodical on a current economic, political or religious topic, or a broadcast work of the same character, unless the right to authorise reproduction is expressly reserved (s. 14(a)).
• You may reproduce and broadcast or otherwise communicate to the public short excerpts of a work seen or heard in the course of reporting current events, to the extent that purpose justifies (s. 14(b)).
• Treat a collection of data, including a database in machine-readable or other form, as protected where it is original by reason of the selection or arrangement of its contents (s. 5(1)(b)).