LithuaniaCopyright Act Art. 21, Quotation Exception
In force since .
A snippet reproduction rule binding public and private bodies.
- Instrument type
- an act of a legislature
What it requires
- You may reproduce, publish and communicate to the public, including online, a small part of a lawfully published or publicly disclosed work, in the original language or in translation, as a quotation for criticism or review in another work, without the author's permission or remuneration.
- Cite the source and the author's name where possible, keep the use fair, and do not exceed what the purpose of quotation requires.
These lines are LexLint's reading of the law's text. Also read by: Case C-516/17 Spiegel Online GmbH v Volker Beck, judgment of (Grand Chamber) (recorded ).
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.
Our reading of where this law's duties sit in each framework. It never says that running a control meets the law. How we read a framework against the law
Who enforces it
Settledness
- As of
- Case link
- https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:62017CJ0516
- Case citation
- Case C-516/17 Spiegel Online GmbH v Volker Beck, judgment of (Grand Chamber)
- Open questions
- Does a news aggregator's page that shows a passage of an article with a link and no commentary count as use 'kaip citatą (kritikos ar apžvalgos tikslais) kitame kūrinyje' under Article 21 of the Lithuanian Copyright Act, and is that passage a 'nedidelę ... dalį' of the work?
What this law does
Article 21 permits reproducing, publishing, and communicating to the public, including online, a small part of a lawfully published or publicly disclosed work, in the original language or in translation, as a quotation for criticism or review in another work, without the author's permission or remuneration, provided the source and author's name are cited where possible and the use is fair and does not exceed what the purpose of quotation requires.
The article's current wording took effect , when Law No. XIV-970 entered into force, though its quotation exception itself dates to an earlier amendment (Law No. XI-1833 of ).
When LexLint raises it
When your app profile says your app reuses other publishers' content.
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