IraqLaw No. 3 of 1971 on Copyright, quotation and current-events reporting exceptions (Arts. 14, 15 bis, 16-17)
Law No. 3 of 1971 on Copyright (Iraq), Arts. 14, 15 bis, 16-17
In force since .
A snippet reproduction rule binding public and private bodies.
- Instrument type
- an act of a legislature
What it requires
- You may make analyses and short quotations from a published work without the author's permission for the purpose of conveying, controversy, education, edification or information, provided you credit the author's name (if known) and the source (Article 14).
- Keep any use under an exception to special cases that do not conflict with the work's normal exploitation and do not unreasonably prejudice the rights holder's legitimate interests (Article 15 bis).
- If you are a newspaper, radio or television service, you may publish, by way of information and without the author's permission, speeches read in public sessions of political, administrative or judicial councils and addresses delivered at public political meetings directed to the people (Article 16).
- Do not publish a collection of someone's speeches or articles: Article 17 reserves that right to the author alone.
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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What this law does
Article 14 lets any person, once a work is published, make analyses and short quotations for the purpose of conveying, controversy, education, edification, or information, without the author's permission, provided the author's name (if known) and the source are credited; the same article permits textbooks and works of history, literature, science, and art to take short extracts from previously published works on the same crediting condition.
Article 15 bis states that an exception to the author's exclusive rights is confined to special cases that do not conflict with the work's normal exploitation and do not unreasonably prejudice the rights holder's legitimate interests.
Article 16 separately lets newspapers, radio, and television publish, by way of information and without the author's permission, speeches read in public sessions of political, administrative, or judicial councils and addresses delivered at public political meetings directed to the people; Article 17 reserves to the speech's own author alone the right to publish a collection of his speeches or articles.
None of these provisions is capped at a headline-length or short-extract threshold for the Article 16 speech-reporting exception, and no located Iraqi decision construes either exception as applied to a systematic aggregator's reproduction of headlines and snippets.
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