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Democratic Republic of the Congo
Copyright and Neighboring Rights Ordinance, Quotation and Press-Reproduction Exceptions
In force since .
A snippet reproduction rule binding public and private bodies.
- Instrument type
- an act of a legislature
What it requires
- You may reproduce quotations or excerpts of protected works for a cultural, scientific, teaching, critical or polemical purpose, if you name the source, the title and the author.
- If you are the written or spoken press, you may reproduce an article published in a newspaper or journal, naming the source, the title and the author, unless the article or the periodical carrying it states that reproduction is forbidden.
- You may freely use news of the day and miscellaneous facts having the character of mere press information, with no attribution condition.
- Treat excerpting as reproduction: the Ordinance defines reproduction broadly, as the material fixation of a work by any process letting it be communicated indirectly to the public, so a service excerpting news content stands on Articles 24 and 32.
These lines are LexLint's reading of the law's text.
In the frameworks
- NIST AI RMF
- MAP 4.1Approaches for mapping AI technology and legal risks of its components – including the use of third-party data or software – are in place, followed, and documented, as are risks of infringement of a third party’s intellectual property or other rights.
Our reading of where this law's duties sit in each framework. It never says that running a control meets the law. How we read a framework against the law
What this law does
Article 24 makes it lawful to reproduce quotations or excerpts of protected works for a cultural, scientific, teaching, critical or polemical purpose, on condition of naming the source, the title and the author.
Article 32 lets the written or spoken press reproduce an article published in a newspaper or journal, on condition of naming the source, the title and the author, unless the article or the periodical in which it is published itself states that reproduction is forbidden, and separately makes 'news of the day' and miscellaneous facts having the character of mere press information freely usable without any attribution condition.
The Ordinance defines reproduction broadly, as the material fixation of a work by any process letting it be communicated indirectly to the public; a service excerpting DRC news content stands on Articles 24 and 32.
When LexLint raises it
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