Côte d'IvoireCopyright and Neighboring Rights Act, quotation, press-review and current-events exceptions
Loi n° 2016-555 du 26 juillet 2016 Arts. 25-26 (Quotation, Press Review and Current-Events Exceptions), relative au droit d'auteur et aux droits voisins
In force since .
A snippet reproduction rule binding public and private bodies.
- Instrument type
- an act of a legislature
What it requires
- You need not seek permission to use bare facts and data, the news of the day as such, ideas, methods, procedures, concepts or information as such, or official legislative, administrative or judicial texts and their official translations; they are excluded from copyright protection outright.
- Once a work has been disclosed, you may make analyses, press reviews and short quotations justified by a critical, polemical, educational, scientific or informational purpose, and use a work to illustrate teaching, if the use is not abusive, carries no lucrative purpose, and credits the author's name and the source.
- You may reproduce and make accessible to the public, in short extracts and for an informational purpose, a literary work seen or heard during a current event, by photography, audiovisual means or broadcast, on the occasion of reporting that event, crediting the author and source.
- Do not rely on that current-events permission where reproduction or broadcasting rights were expressly reserved.
- Do not assume these articles reach a systematic aggregator's reproduction of headlines and snippets: no reported Ivorian decision has tested it beyond a traditional press review or a broadcaster's current-events report.
These lines are LexLint's reading of the law's text.
In the frameworks
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- 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.
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What this law does
Article 10 excludes ideas, methods, procedures, concepts or information as such, official legislative, administrative or judicial texts and their official translations, and mere data and facts as such, from copyright protection outright, so a bare fact or the news of the day as such is never a protected work under Ivorian law, whichever outlet reports it first.
Article 25 separately lets any person, once a work has been disclosed, make analyses, press reviews and short quotations justified by a critical, polemical, educational, scientific or informational purpose, and use a literary, artistic or scientific work to illustrate teaching, in each case provided the use is not abusive, carries no lucrative purpose, and credits the author's name and the source.
Article 26 lets a literary work seen or heard during a current event be reproduced and made accessible to the public, by short extracts and for an informational purpose, on the occasion of a report of that event, by photography, audiovisual means or broadcast, again subject to crediting the author and source, and provided reproduction or broadcasting rights were not expressly reserved.
Neither article is capped at a headline-length threshold beyond its own critical, educational or informational-purpose test, and neither is confined to the press industry; whether either reaches a systematic aggregator's reproduction of headlines and snippets, as opposed to a traditional press review or a broadcaster's current-events report, has not been tested in a reported Ivorian decision.
Côte d'Ivoire has no separate press-publisher neighbouring right, no compelled platform-to-publisher bargaining regime, no recognized hot-news or misappropriation doctrine distinct from ordinary copyright and unfair-competition law, and no located case law on hyperlinking or framed display.
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