LibyaLaw No. 9 of 1968, quotation and newspaper-reproduction exceptions
Law No. 9 of 1968 Issuing the Copyright Protection Law, arts. 13-17
In force since .
A snippet reproduction rule binding public and private bodies.
- Instrument type
- an act of a legislature
- Categories
- Hot news
- Obligation class
- Attribution
What it requires
- You may make analyses and short quotations from a published work for criticism, discussion, education or information, provided you give the author's name, if known, and the source (Article 13).
- If you are a newspaper or periodical, you may publish a quotation, summary or short statement from another's work or novel without the author's permission, always giving the source and the author's name (Article 14).
- If you are a newspaper or periodical, you may copy an article on political, economic, scientific or religious discussion of public interest at a given time, unless the source publication has indicated that copying is strictly prohibited; give the source and the author's name (Article 14).
- Do not copy a scientific, literary or artistic article, serial or short story wholesale without permission (Article 14).
- You may report daily events and other occurrences having the nature of ordinary news: the law's protection does not extend to them (Article 14).
- If you are a newspaper or broadcaster, you may publish or broadcast, as news and without the author's permission, a speech, lecture or talk delivered at an open meeting of a legislative or administrative body or at a scientific, literary, political, social or religious meeting addressed to the public (Article 15).
These lines are LexLint's reading of the law's text.
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.
- NIST AI 600-1
- GAI-RISK-10Intellectual Property
- MIT mitigations Draft
- 3.2Data Governance
- FINOS AIGF
- AIR-PREV-007Legal and Contractual Frameworks for AI Systems
- AIR-DET-013Providing Citations and Source Traceability for AI-Generated Information
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
If you get it wrong
Criminal exposureYes
Criminal exposure note
Infringing the rights protected by articles 5, 6, 7, and 9, which do not include the quotation and newspaper exceptions of articles 13 through 17, is punishable under article 48 by a fine of twenty to five hundred Libyan pounds, a pre-1971 currency unit the law has never been amended to redenominate; selling, importing, or exporting a counterfeit work carries the same fine.
Who enforces it
Enforcement body
Ministry of Information & Culture; Court of First Instance
Settledness
- As of
- Open questions
- Does Article 14, which lets "Newspapers and periodicals" publish "a quotation, a summary or a short statement" from other works, extend to an online news aggregator that is not itself a newspaper or periodical?
- What term does Article 14 mean by "before the expiry of the term provided for in Article (8)", given that Article 8 sets a three-year period for the translation right?
What this law does
Article 13 of Law No. 9 of 1968 permits analyses and short quotations from a published work where intended for criticism, discussion, education, or information, provided the author's name, if known, and the source are given.
Article 14 lets a newspaper or periodical publish a quotation, a summary, or a short statement from another's work or novel without the author's permission, and copy an article on political, economic, scientific, or religious discussion of public interest at a given time, as long as the source publication has not indicated that copying is strictly prohibited, but bars copying a scientific, literary, or artistic article, serial, or short story wholesale without permission; the source and author's name must always be given.
The same article states that the law's protection does not extend to daily events and other occurrences having the nature of ordinary news. Article 15 lets a newspaper or broadcaster publish or broadcast, as news and without the author's permission, a speech, lecture, or talk delivered at an open meeting of a legislative or administrative body or at a scientific, literary, political, social, or religious meeting addressed to the public.
Article 17 permits copying a short quotation, or a limited extract of a graphic, sculptural, or photographic work, in a school, literature, history, science, or art book, with the source and author's name always given.
When LexLint raises it
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