Reuses other publishers' content, in Uganda

Copyright and Neighbouring Rights Act, Chapter 222, ss. 6 and 14 (news exclusion and quotation) · Read the law's page

• You need not license the news of the day: reports of fresh events or current information by the media, whether published in written form, broadcast, on the internet or by any other means, are excluded from copyright, so a bare news report is never a protected work, whichever outlet reports it first.
• You may quote a published work without the copyright owner's consent, including a quotation from a newspaper or periodical in the form of a press summary, if the quotation is compatible with fair practice, its extent does not exceed what is justified for the purpose of the work using it, and you acknowledge the source.
• Do not assume the quotation exception covers a systematic aggregator's headlines and snippets: it has no headline-length or short-extract cap beyond fair practice and the quoting work's own purpose, but that use, as against a traditional press summary, has not been tested in a reported Ugandan decision.