MaldivesCopyright and Related Rights Act, quotation and current-events reproduction exceptions
Copyright and Related Rights Act (Law No. 23/2010), ss. 14, 17
In force since .
A snippet reproduction rule binding public and private bodies.
- Instrument type
- an act of a legislature
- Obligation class
- Attribution
What it requires
- You may reuse a small amount of a published work as a quotation, without the permission of the author or copyright owner, fairly and to no greater extent than the activity requires, and where the work shows the author's name you must state the author's name, the source and the manner of publication (s. 14).
- You may reproduce, broadcast or otherwise communicate to the public a newspaper or periodical article on current economic, social or religious topics, with the author identified and the source disclosed as far as possible, unless the author or copyright owner has stated in advance that it may not be used without permission (s. 17(a)).
- You may reproduce short excerpts of a work to report a current event, with the author identified and the source disclosed as far as possible (s. 17(c)).
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
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What this law does
Section 14(a), as amended by Law 31 of 2024, permits reusing a small amount of a published work as a quotation without the permission of the author or copyright owner, fairly and to no greater extent than the activity requires. Section 14(b) requires a quotation from a published work that shows the author's name to state the author's name, the source and the manner of publication.
Section 17(a) permits reproducing in a newspaper or periodical, or broadcasting or otherwise communicating to the public, an article published in a newspaper or periodical on current economic, social or religious topics, unless the author or copyright owner has stated in advance that it may not be used without permission. Section 17 requires the author to be identified and the source disclosed as far as possible.
Section 17(c) permits reproducing short excerpts of a work for the purpose of reporting a current event. Law 31 of 2024, which amended these sections, took effect on , three months after its publication in the Government Gazette on . Neither section creates a machine-readable opt-out mechanism, and no separate press-publisher neighbouring right, bargaining-code obligation, or hot-news doctrine exists in Maldivian law.
When LexLint raises it
When your app profile says your app reuses other publishers' content.
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