GuyanaCopyright Act 1956 (UK), as extended to Guyana, reporting-current-events exception
Copyright Act 1956 (UK) (4 & 5 Eliz. 2 c. 74) s. 6, as extended with modifications to British Guiana by the Copyright (British Guiana) Order 1966 (S.I. 1966 No. 79)
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In force since 5 February 1966.
A snippet reproduction rule.
As of 5 September 2026.
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Section 6 of the Copyright Act 1956 (UK) permits, without the copyright owner's consent, fair dealing with a literary, dramatic, or musical work for the purpose of reporting current events in a newspaper, magazine, or similar periodical, provided the use is accompanied by a sufficient acknowledgment. The same section separately permits fair dealing for research, private study, criticism, or review.
Section 9 extends the same fair-dealing structure to artistic works for research, private study, criticism, or review. The section carries no headline-length or short-extract cap distinct from the fair-dealing test, and no reported Guyanese decision applies it to a systematic news aggregator rather than an individual quoting or reporting on a published work.
Guyana has no dedicated press-publisher neighbouring right of the kind the European Union's Digital Single Market Directive Article 15 creates; the 1966 Order extending the 1956 Act to British Guiana modifies other named sections and schedules of the Act for local application but the located text does not show section 6 or section 9 among the sections it modifies.
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Copyright Act 1956 (UK), as enacted, legislation.gov.uk (The National Archives)
extended to British Guiana by the Copyright (British Guiana) Order 1966, WIPO Lex
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