IndiaCopyright Act, Fair Dealing for News Reporting and Article Reproduction
Copyright Act, 1957 (No. 14 of 1957), s. 52(1)(a)(iii), (m), s. 39(b)
In force since .
A snippet reproduction rule binding public and private bodies.
- Instrument type
- an act of a legislature
What it requires
- You may report current events and current affairs, including a lecture delivered in public, as fair dealing without infringing copyright (section 52(1)(a)(iii)).
- You may reproduce in a newspaper, magazine or other periodical an article on current economic, political, social or religious topics, but not where the article's author has expressly reserved the right of such reproduction (section 52(1)(m)).
- You may use excerpts of a broadcast or of a recorded performance, as fair dealing, for reporting current events (section 39(b)).
These lines are LexLint's reading of the law's text.
What this law does
Section 52(1)(a)(iii) excuses, as fair dealing, the reporting of current events and current affairs, including the reporting of a lecture delivered in public. Section 52(1)(m) separately excuses the reproduction in a newspaper, magazine or other periodical of an article on current economic, political, social or religious topics, unless the article's author has expressly reserved the right of such reproduction, which makes this exception an opt-out rather than an unconditional one.
Section 39(b) gives the same fair-dealing protection, for the reporting of current events, to excerpts of a broadcast or of a recorded performance. The Act has applied since its own commencement, , per notification under section 1(3).
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