JordanCopyright Protection Law, Quotation and Press-Reproduction Exceptions
Law No. 22 of 1992 on Copyright Protection, as amended up to Law No. 23 of 2014, Arts. 17-19
In force since .
A snippet reproduction rule binding public and private bodies.
- Instrument type
- an act of a legislature
What it requires
- You may quote passages from a published work in another work, without the author's authorization, for clarification, explanation, discussion, criticism, education or testing, to the extent the purpose justifies, naming the source and the author, and provided the use does not conflict with the normal exploitation of the work or cause unjustified harm to the right holder's legitimate interests (Article 17(d)); it is not limited to press content.
- Do not reproduce in a newspaper or periodical, without the authors' consent, serialized novels, short stories or any other work published in another newspaper or periodical (Article 18).
- If you are a newspaper, you may reproduce another newspaper's articles on current political, economic or religious affairs, provided the source newspaper has not expressly prohibited reproduction and you name it as the source (Article 18).
- You may publish a speech, address or interview already communicated to the public, without the author's authorization, provided you name the work and its author (Article 19).
These lines are LexLint's reading of the law's text.
In the frameworks
- NIST AI RMF
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What this law does
Article 17(d) permits, without the author's authorization, quoting passages from a published work in another work for the purpose of clarification, explanation, discussion, criticism, education, or testing, to the extent justified by the purpose and with the source and the author's name stated, provided the use does not conflict with the normal exploitation of the work and does not cause unjustified harm to the right holder's legitimate interests.
The provision carries no headline-length or short-extract cap of its own and is not limited to press content. Article 18 bars a newspaper or periodical from reproducing, without the authors' consent, serialized novels, short stories, or any other work published in another newspaper or periodical.
Article 18 separately permits a newspaper to reproduce another newspaper's articles on current political, economic, or religious affairs, provided the source newspaper has not expressly prohibited reproduction and the source is named. This exception runs between newspapers and is an opt-out mechanism rather than a modern press-publisher neighbouring right.
Article 19 permits publishing a speech, address, or interview already communicated to the public, without the author's authorization, provided the work and its author are named. No provision read addresses hyperlinking, framing, or inline display, and no reported Jordanian decision applies any of these provisions to a systematic news aggregator rather than a newspaper or an individual quoting a published work.
Article 1 provides that the Law has effect from the date of its publication in the Official Journal, and the Legislation and Opinion Bureau records that publication as issue 3821 of .
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