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Central African Republic
Bangui Agreement (Act of 2015), Annex VII, Free Use for Informational Purposes
Accord de Bangui instituant une Organisation Africaine de la Propriété Intellectuelle Acte du 14 décembre 2015, Annexe VII (Propriété littéraire et artistique), art. 15
In force since .
A snippet reproduction rule binding private bodies.
- Instrument type
- an act of a legislature
As of .
What it requires
- The Bangui Agreement's Annex VII, in the Act of , applies in the Central African Republic as an African Intellectual Property Organization (OAPI) member state, where the Agreement and its Annexes take the place of national law on the matters they cover; Annex VII is a minimum normative framework.
- You need not obtain permission to use the news of the day or mere facts and data: Annex VII does not protect them (art. 6).
- You may reproduce by print or audiovisual press an economic, political or religious article published in a newspaper or periodical, or a broadcast work of the same character, without the author's authorization or payment, unless the right of reproduction, broadcasting or communication to the public has been expressly reserved (art. 15).
- Credit the source and the author's name where the source gives it.
- You may reproduce or make accessible to the public, to report current events, a work seen or heard in the course of the event, to the extent the informational purpose justifies.
- You may reproduce by print or audiovisual press political speeches, lectures, addresses, sermons and courtroom pleadings for information, unless their authors have expressly reserved their rights; the authors alone keep the right to publish collections of them.
- You may quote a lawfully published work in another work, crediting the source and author, if the quotation accords with good usage and does not exceed what its purpose justifies (art. 11).
- Do not assume the press exception reaches a systematic aggregator's reproduction of headlines and snippets: Annex VII does not say so.
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What this law does
Annex VII Article 6 excludes official legislative, administrative, and judicial texts, the news of the day, and mere facts and data from copyright protection. Article 8 gives an author the exclusive right to exploit a work in any form, including the exclusive right to reproduce it, translate or adapt it, distribute copies to the public, and perform it in public.
Article 15 carves out a free-use exception for informational purposes, on condition that the source and the author's name, where the source gives it, are credited.
Without the author's authorization or any payment, any person may reproduce by print or audiovisual press an economic, political, or religious article published in a newspaper or periodical, or a broadcast work of the same character, where the right of reproduction, broadcasting, or communication to the public has not been expressly reserved.
A work seen or heard in the course of a current event may likewise be reproduced or made accessible to the public, to report the event, to the extent the informational purpose justifies. Political speeches, lectures, addresses, sermons, and courtroom pleadings may be reproduced by print or audiovisual press for information, unless the authors have expressly reserved their rights. Authors alone keep the right to publish collections of such works.
Article 11 separately permits quoting a lawfully published work in another work, with the source and author credited, where the quotation accords with good usage and does not exceed what its purpose justifies. The Government of the Central African Republic is named in the Act's preamble as a signatory. In the OAPI member states the Agreement and its Annexes take the place of national law on the matters they cover, and Annex VII is a minimum normative framework.
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