CroatiaZakon o autorskom pravu i srodnim pravima, Pravo nakladnika informativnih publikacija (Arts. 165-166, 170-172)
In force since .
A press publishers' right rule binding private bodies.
- Instrument type
- an act of a legislature
What it requires
- Obtain the authorisation of a publisher of information publications established in the EU before reproducing, distributing, communicating to the public or adapting its information publications (Art. 165).
- If you are an information-society service provider, obtain that publisher's authorisation before reproducing its information publications or communicating them to the public online (Art. 166).
- You need no authorisation for an individual user's private and non-commercial use, hyperlinking, or the use of individual words or very short extracts of no more than a few words that carry no photograph or video and do not affect the effectiveness of the exclusive rights (Art. 166(3)).
- The Article 165 right lasts ten years from the information publication's first lawful publication, and the Article 166 right against information-society service providers lasts two years from the same event (Art. 171).
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.
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Who enforces it
Settledness
- As of
- Open questions
- How many words is 'nekoliko riječi' in Article 166, paragraph 3, point 3 of the Croatian copyright act, and does a headline with a snippet that omits photographs and video still affect 'djelotvornost isključivih prava' when it replaces the publication or deters the reader from following the link?
- Does the training of an LLM-based chatbot on press publications, or the display of their content in its responses, count as use 'na internetu' of a publication by an 'pružatelj usluga informacijskog društva' in Article 166, paragraph 1, the questions referred to the Court of Justice in Case C-250/25?
What this law does
A publisher of information publications established in the EU holds exclusive reproduction, distribution, communication-to-the-public and adaptation rights over its information publications against ordinary users, per Article 165, and a separate exclusive reproduction and communication-to-the-public right specifically against an information-society service provider's online use, per Article 166.
Article 166(3) exempts an individual user's private and non-commercial use, hyperlinking, and the use of individual words or very short extracts of no more than a few words that carry no photograph or video and do not affect the effectiveness of the exclusive rights.
The Article 165 right against ordinary users lasts ten years from the information publication's first lawful publication, and the Article 166 right against information-society service providers lasts two years from the same event, per Article 171.
When LexLint raises it
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