GabonLoi n°1/87, exception de courte citation et revue de presse
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 make an analysis or short quotation from a work already lawfully made accessible to the public, conforming to fair practice and justified by a scientific, critical, polemical, educational or informational purpose, including newspaper or periodical quotations reproduced in a press review, in the original or a translation.
- The press may reproduce or broadcast, for informational purposes, a current economic, political or religious news article published or broadcast, in the original or in translation, unless the right of reproduction has been expressly reserved.
- The press may likewise reproduce or broadcast a speech delivered before a deliberative assembly, a public court hearing, or a public political meeting or official ceremony, unless the right of reproduction has been expressly reserved.
- Give the work's title and the author's name when you quote or analyse, and the author's name and the source when you reproduce news.
- Do not reproduce a protected work outside these exceptions: that is illicit, and for a work made available to the public without authorization it exposes both the person who let it happen on their premises and whoever materially committed the reproduction to civil liability.
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 a protected work outside a statutory exception is punished under the Penal Code's provisions on literary and artistic property, referred to rather than stated in this law itself, so no specific fine amount is established here.
Who enforces it
Enforcement body
Agence Nationale de Promotion Artistique et Culturelle (ANPAC); ordinary civil and criminal courts
Settledness
- As of
- Open questions
- Does an automated news aggregator count as "la presse" ("the press") that article 36 allows to reproduce current-affairs articles ("peuvent etre reproduits par la presse", "may be reproduced by the press"), and how must a rightsholder make the reservation, in the words "n'en ait pas ete expressement reserve" ("has not been expressly reserved"), for it to bind such a service?
What this law does
Loi n°1/87 permits, provided the title of the work and the author's name are given, an analysis or short quotation drawn from a work already lawfully made accessible to the public, conforming to fair practice and justified by a scientific, critical, polemical, educational, or informational purpose, expressly including a quotation from a newspaper article or periodical reproduced as part of a press review, in either the original or a translation.
Separately, provided the author's name and source are given and the right of reproduction has not been expressly reserved, the press may reproduce or broadcast for informational purposes a current economic, political, or religious news article published or broadcast in the original or in translation, or a speech delivered before a deliberative assembly, a public court hearing, or a public political meeting or official ceremony.
Reproducing a protected work outside these exceptions is illicit and, for a work made available to the public without authorization, exposes both the person who let it happen on their premises and whoever materially committed the reproduction to civil liability.
When LexLint raises it
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