LebanonLaw No. 75/1999 on the Protection of Literary and Artistic Property, Current-Events Reporting Exception
In force.
A snippet reproduction rule binding private bodies.
What it requires
- If you are part of the media, you may use short excerpts of works displayed or heard during current events, in the course of reporting those events, without the author's authorization or compensation, provided you mention the author's name and the source (Article 30).
- Use the Article 26 exception only for educational purposes: it permits copying or reproducing articles published in newspapers and magazines, or short excerpts of a work, without authorization or compensation within the necessary limits of that purpose, crediting the author's and publisher's names on each use.
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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 30 permits the media, without the author's authorization and without obligation to pay compensation, to use short excerpts of works that are displayed or heard during current events in the course of reporting those events, provided the name of the author and the source are mentioned.
A separate exception at article 26 permits copying or reproducing articles published in newspapers and magazines, or short excerpts of a work, without authorization or compensation, solely for educational purposes and within the necessary limits of that purpose, with the author's and publisher's names credited on each use.
Neither exception carries a headline-length or short-extract cap distinct from its own purpose-bound test, and no reported Lebanese decision applies either to a systematic news aggregator rather than a broadcaster reporting an event or an educator excerpting a published work. Article 101 provides that the Law takes effect two months after its publication in the Official Gazette.
The enacting article provides that it takes effect on publication, and no source located states the day on which it took effect.
When LexLint raises it
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