CyprusIntellectual Property and Related Rights Law, Article 36 (Press Publisher Online Rights)
In force since .
A press publishers' right rule binding private bodies.
- Instrument type
- an act of a legislature
- Categories
- Linking framing, Snippet reproduction
What it requires
- Applies to you if you are an information-society service provider using online the press publications of a press publisher established in a member state.
- Obtain the press publisher's authorisation before reproducing its press publication or making it available online (art. 36(1)).
- You need no authorisation for private or non-commercial use by individual users, for hyperlinks that only lead the user to the press publication on the publisher's own webpage and use no other form of link such as framing technology, or for single words or very short extracts (art. 36(2)-(3)).
- The right lasts two years from the publication's release, calculated from 1 January of the following year, and does not apply to publications first published before (art. 36(7)).
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
Who enforces it
Settledness
- As of
- Open questions
- Does a headline with a snippet of a given length fall within 'πολύ σύντομων αποσπασμάτων' in article 36(3)(β) of the Law as inserted by L. 155(I)/2022, when the statute sets no length?
- Does the training of an LLM-based chatbot on press publications, or the display of their content in its responses, count as 'επιγραμμική χρήση από παρόχους υπηρεσιών της κοινωνίας της πληροφορίας' in article 36(1), the questions referred to the Court of Justice in Case C-250/25?
What this law does
Press publishers established in a member state hold an exclusive right to authorise or prohibit the reproduction and online making-available of their press publications by information-society service providers, per new Article 36(1) of Cyprus's Intellectual Property and Related Rights Law. The right does not reach private or non-commercial use by individual users, per Article 36(2).
Nor does it reach hyperlinks that only lead the user to the press publication on the publisher's own webpage and use no other form of link such as framing technology, or the use of single words or very short extracts, per Article 36(3). The right lasts two years from the publication's release, calculated from 1 January of the following year, and does not apply to publications first published before , per Article 36(7).
Authors whose works are incorporated in a press publication are entitled to an appropriate share of the revenue publishers receive for its use, per Article 36(9). Law 155(I)/2022, which inserted the article, was published in the Official Gazette on . Under article 7 of the Interpretation Law, a Law that provides no other day comes into force on the date of its publication in the Official Gazette.
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