KyrgyzstanCopyright Law, press-review and quotation exception
Law No. 6 of on Copyright and Related Rights (as amended by Law No. 62 of ), Arts. 8, 19
In force since .
A snippet reproduction rule binding private bodies.
What it requires
- You may use daily news or information on current events that constitutes regular press information: Article 8 excludes it from copyright protection, so a bare news item is not a copyrighted work.
- You may quote from lawfully published works without the author's consent or payment, for scientific research, polemic, critical or informational purposes and to the extent the purpose justifies, including extracts from newspaper and magazine articles in press reviews; give the author's name and the source (Article 19(1)(1)).
- You may reproduce in newspapers, by broadcast or cable, for general information, material published in newspapers or periodicals on current economic, political, social or religious issues (or broadcast works of that character), unless the author has specifically prohibited it; give the author's name and the source (Article 19(1)(3)).
- You may reproduce public political speeches, addresses and lectures for an informatory purpose; the author keeps the right to publish a collection of them (Article 19(1)(4)).
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What this law does
Article 8, read in full, excludes 'daily news or information on current events that constitute regular press information' from copyright protection, alongside official documents, official symbols, and works of folk art, so a bare news item is not a copyrighted work to begin with.
Where a work is protected, Article 19(1)(1) permits, without the author's consent or payment of remuneration but on condition that the author's name and the source are given, quotation in the original language or in translation for scientific research, polemic, critical, or informational purposes from lawfully published works to the extent justified by the purpose, expressly including reproduction of extracts from newspaper and magazine articles in press reviews.
Article 19(1)(3), on the same conditions, permits reproducing in newspapers, by broadcast, or by cable, for general information, material newspapers or periodicals have published on current economic, political, social, or religious issues, or broadcast works of the same character, unless the author has specifically prohibited such reproduction, transfer to broadcast, or cable transmission.
Article 19(1)(4) further permits reproducing public political speeches, addresses, and lectures for an informatory purpose, with the author retaining the right to publish a collection of them. None of these provisions caps the length of a permitted extract beyond the fair-practice and purpose-justified test itself, and no reported Kyrgyz decision applies any of them to a systematic news aggregator rather than an individual quoting a published work.
Neighbouring rights under the Law (Arts. 34-47) protect performers, phonogram producers, and broadcasting or cable organizations, not a print or online news publisher's own reporting, so Kyrgyzstan has no publisher-side neighbouring right of the kind the European Union's Digital Single Market Directive Article 15 creates. The Law entered into effect on the date of its publication in the newspaper Erkin Too, .
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