MozambiqueCopyright and Related Rights Law, Exclusion of News and Facts from Protection
Lei n.º 9/2022, de 29 de Junho (Direitos do Autor e Direitos Conexos), art. 7
In force.
A snippet reproduction rule binding public and private bodies.
- Instrument type
- an act of a legislature
What it requires
- You need not obtain permission to reproduce news of the day and reports of events of a merely informational character, or mere facts and data: article 7(1) excludes them from copyright protection.
- Official legislative, administrative and judicial texts and their official translations are likewise unprotected (art. 7(1)).
- You need not obtain permission to use a title that is a generic, necessary or usual designation of the theme or object of a work of a given genre, or that consists exclusively of the names of historical or mythological characters or of living public figures (art. 7(1)).
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What this law does
Article 7(1) excludes from copyright protection: official texts of a legislative, administrative, or judicial nature and their official translations; news of the day and reports of events of a merely informational character; mere facts and data; political speeches, unless collected in a volume by their authors; ideas, processes, operational methods, or mathematical concepts, principles, or discoveries; and titles that are a generic, necessary, or usual designation of the theme or object of a work of a given genre, or that consist exclusively of the names of historical or mythological characters or of living public figures.
Article 7(2) allows the official texts named in Article 7(1)(a) to incorporate protected works without the rightholder's prior consent and without any compensation for the incorporation. The Law repeals the prior copyright statute, Lei n.º 4/2001, de 27 de Fevereiro. Article 98 brings the Law into force 90 days after its publication on , and no official notice stating the resulting day has been located.
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