EgyptLaw No. 82 of 2002 on the Protection of Intellectual Property Rights, quotation and analysis exception (Book Three, Art. 171(4))
Law No. 82 of 2002 News Quotation Exception (Book Three), on the Protection of Intellectual Property Rights, as amended by Law No. 178 of 2020
In force since .
A snippet reproduction rule binding public and private bodies.
- Instrument type
- an act of a legislature
What it requires
- You may make an analysis of a published work, or take excerpts or quotations from it, without the author's authorization, for the purpose of criticism, discussion or information (art. 171(4)).
- The exception is not tied to the news media and has no headline-versus-substantial-extract threshold of its own, and no reported Egyptian decision has tested whether it reaches an aggregator's systematic reproduction of headlines and snippets.
- Egypt has no separate press-publisher neighbouring right, compelled platform-to-publisher bargaining regime or hot-news doctrine distinct from ordinary copyright and unfair-competition law.
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Who enforces it
Settledness
WIPO Lex states that the current text of this Law is unavailable in English and supplies the 2002 version for reference.
- As of
- Open questions
- Does a headline-and-snippet aggregator's reproduction of a report fall within "News on current events which are mere press information", which Article 141 leaves unprotected, or must it qualify as an "excerpt" under Article 171(4)?
- Does Article 171(4), which permits "excerpts or quotations" taken "for the purpose of criticism, discussion or information", cover systematic commercial reproduction by an aggregator as well as an individual's quotation?
What this law does
Article 171(4) permits any person, without the author's authorization and after a work's publication, to "make an analysis of the work, or excerpts or quotations therefrom, for the purpose of criticism, discussion or information."
The exception is not tied to the news media specifically and carries no headline-versus-substantial-extract threshold of its own; whether it reaches an aggregator's systematic reproduction of headlines and snippets, as opposed to an individual's quotation for commentary, has not been tested in a reported Egyptian decision.
Egypt 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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