North KoreaCopyright Law, News and Facts Exclusion and Press-Introduction Exception
In force.
A snippet reproduction rule binding public and private bodies.
- Instrument type
- an act of a legislature
What it requires
- You may use current news as such, and documents for state management or information data, without permission: Article 12 excludes them from copyright unless a commercial purpose is pursued.
- You may broadcast or carry a copyrighted work in a newspaper or periodical for the purpose of introducing it, or quote a copyrighted work, without the copyright holder's permission (Article 32(5) and (6)); neither is capped at a headline-length or short-extract threshold.
These lines are LexLint's reading of the law's text.
What this law does
Article 12 excludes documents for state management, current news, or information data from the object of copyright outright, unless a commercial purpose is pursued: current news as such is never a protected work under this Law.
Article 32(5) and (6) separately let any person broadcast or carry a copyrighted work in a newspaper or periodical for the purpose of introducing it, or quote a copyrighted work, without the copyright holder's permission; neither is capped at a headline-length or short-extract threshold, and no reported North Korean decision applies either to a systematic news aggregator as opposed to a traditional press report.
North Korea has no separate press-publisher neighbouring right, no compelled platform-to-publisher bargaining regime, and no located case law on hyperlinking or framed display. The Law's text carries no commencement clause, and no day on which it came into force has been located.
When LexLint raises it
When your app profile says your app reuses other publishers' content.
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