AlgeriaOrdonnance n° 03-05, exception de citation
Ordonnance n° 03-05 du 19 juillet 2003, art. 41-42 (citations)
In force since .
A snippet reproduction rule binding public and private bodies.
- Instrument type
- an act of a legislature
- Obligation class
- Attribution, Access restriction
What it requires
- You may cite or borrow from a published work in another work where the use conforms to loyal use for information or demonstration purposes, always giving the author's name and the source (arts. 41-42).
- You may make a single-copy private reproduction of a work for personal or family use, but this exception does not cover reproducing a database in digital form.
- Do not reproduce or communicate a protected work outside these exceptions without authorization; doing so is punishable as infringement (contrefaçon).
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.
- NIST AI 600-1
- GAI-RISK-09Information Security
- GAI-RISK-10Intellectual Property
- GAI-RISK-12Value Chain and Component Integration
- OWASP LLM Top 10
- LLM03:2026Excessive Agency
- OWASP Agentic Top 10
- ASI03Identity and Privilege Abuse
- MIT mitigations Draft
- FINOS AIGF
- AIR-PREV-007Legal and Contractual Frameworks for AI Systems
- AIR-PREV-018Agent Authority Least Privilege Framework
- AIR-PREV-023Agentic System Credential Protection Framework
- AIR-DET-013Providing Citations and Source Traceability for AI-Generated Information
- ETSI EN 304 223
- 5.1.2-6Access the AI system gets to other systems and data sources is minimal and risk assessed.
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
Identifiers refer to ETSI EN 304 223 V2.1.1 (2025-12), © ETSI 2025, all rights reserved. ETSI owns the standard; no ETSI text (titles or sentences) is reproduced here. The standard is free to download from ETSI.
If you get it wrong
Criminal exposureYes
Criminal exposure note
Reproducing or communicating a work outside the quotation and private-use exceptions is contrefaçon, punishable by six months to three years' imprisonment and a fine of 500,000 to 1,000,000 DA (art. 153), doubled on recidivism (art. 156).
Penalty structure
Art. 153's fine range for the délit de contrefaçon is 500,000 to 1,000,000 DA, alongside six months to three years' imprisonment; doubled on recidivism under art. 156.
- Rule
- Fixed only
- As of
- Currency
- DZD
- Fixed cap
- 1,000,000
Who enforces it
Enforcement body
Office national des droits d'auteur et des droits voisins; ordinary civil and criminal courts
Settledness
- As of
- Open questions
- What makes a quotation or borrowing conform to 'l’usage loyal d’information et de démonstration recherchée' under article 42 of Ordonnance n° 03-05, and can an automated news aggregator that reproduces extracts meet that test?
What this law does
A citation or borrowing from a published work in another work is licit under ordonnance n° 03-05 where it conforms to loyal use for information or demonstration purposes, provided the author's name and the source are always given. A single-copy private reproduction of a work is otherwise licit for personal or family use, but that exception does not cover a digital-form database reproduction.
Reproducing or communicating a protected work without authorization outside these exceptions is punishable as contrefaçon.
When LexLint raises it
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