CubaLey 14/1977, De Derecho de Autor, press-review and public-communication exception
Ley 14/1977 De Derecho de Autor, art. 38
A snippet reproduction rule binding public and private bodies.
- Instrument type
- an act of a legislature
What it requires
- Repealed by Ley 154/2022, so read this as context rather than a live duty. While it applied, you could reproduce citations or fragments of a work already known to the public, in written, sound or visual form, without the author's consent or payment, for teaching, informational, critical, illustrative or explanatory purposes, to the extent the purpose justified.
- While it applied, you could use a work as teaching illustration in publications or broadcasts, even in full where its brief length and nature justified it.
- While it applied, you could reproduce, broadcast or otherwise communicate to the public a political speech, report, conference or judicial debate, or a similar work, already made known to the public; including it in a compiled collection of one author's works or in a collective work still needed the author's consent and remuneration.
- While it applied, the author's name and the source had to be credited whenever these exceptions were relied on.
These lines are LexLint's reading of the law's text.
What this law does
Ley 154/2022 repealed this Law in its third final provision. Ley 154/2022 took effect 90 days after its publication in the Gaceta Oficial.
Article 38 permitted, without the author's consent and without remuneration but with mandatory credit to the author's name and the source, and provided the work is already known to the public: reproducing citations or fragments in written, sound, or visual form for teaching, informational, critical, illustrative, or explanatory purposes, to the extent the purpose pursued justifies; using a work, even in full where its brief length and nature justify it, as teaching illustration in publications or broadcasts; and reproducing, broadcasting, or otherwise communicating to the public any political speech, report, conference, or judicial debate, or other work of the same character, that has already been communicated or made known to the public, though including such a speech in a compiled collection of one author's works or in a collective work still required the author's consent and remuneration.
The available copy of this 1977 law is a scanned, optical-character-recognized text whose transcription is degraded throughout, so the provisions above rest on that scan. No gazette notice stating the day the Law came into force has been located.
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