United KingdomCriticism, Review, Quotation and News Reporting
Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, c. 48, s. 30
In force.
A snippet reproduction rule binding public and private bodies.
What it requires
- You may use a quotation from a work made available to the public without infringing copyright, whether for criticism or review or otherwise, provided the use is fair dealing, no more than the purpose requires, and carries a sufficient acknowledgement unless that is impossible for practical or other reasons (s. 30(1ZA)).
- You may deal fairly with a work for criticism or review (s. 30(1)), or with a work other than a photograph for reporting current events (s. 30(2)), each subject to a sufficient acknowledgement.
- A contract term purporting to override the quotation exception is unenforceable.
- None of these provisions carries a headline-length or short-extract cap distinct from the fair-dealing and extent-justified tests, and no reported UK decision has applied section 30 to a systematic news aggregator's reproduction of headlines and snippets.
These lines are LexLint's reading of the law's text.
What this law does
Section 30(1ZA) provides that copyright in a work is not infringed by the use of a quotation from it, whether for criticism or review or otherwise, provided the work has been made available to the public, the use is fair dealing, the extent of the quotation is no more than required for the purpose it is used for, and it carries a sufficient acknowledgement (unless impossible for reasons of practicality or otherwise); a contract term purporting to override this quotation exception is unenforceable.
Section 30(1) separately permits fair dealing with a work for criticism or review, and section 30(2) permits fair dealing with a work, other than a photograph, for the purpose of reporting current events, each subject to a sufficient-acknowledgement requirement.
None of these provisions carries a headline-length or short-extract cap distinct from the fair-dealing and extent-justified tests, and no reported UK decision has applied section 30 specifically to a systematic news aggregator's reproduction of headlines and snippets, as opposed to an individual quoting a published work. The provisions this entry describes came into force on different days.
When LexLint raises it
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