NetherlandsWet op de naburige rechten, Article 7b, Press Publisher Online Right
Wet op de naburige rechten (WNR), art. 7b (BWBR0005921)
In force since .
A press publishers' right rule binding private bodies.
- Instrument type
- an act of a legislature
- Categories
- Linking framing
What it requires
- If you are an information-society-service provider, obtain the press publisher's authorisation before reproducing its press publication online or making it available to the public (art. 7b(1)).
- You need no authorisation for private or non-commercial use by individual users, hyperlinking to a press publication, the use of single words or very short fragments, or the use of a work whose own protection term has expired (art. 7b(2)).
- The press publisher's right lapses two years after 1 January of the year following the year the press publication was made public (art. 12(7)).
These lines are LexLint's reading of the law's text. Also read by: Case C-797/23 Meta Platforms Ireland Ltd v Autorità per le Garanzie nelle Comunicazioni, 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:62023CJ0797
- Case citation
- Case C-797/23 Meta Platforms Ireland Ltd v Autorità per le Garanzie nelle Comunicazioni, judgment of (Grand Chamber)
- Open questions
- Does a headline with a snippet of a given length fall within 'heel korte fragmenten uit een perspublicatie' in artikel 7b, tweede lid, onder c, van de Wet op de naburige rechten, when the law sets no length?
- Does the training of an LLM-based chatbot on press publications, or the display of their content in its responses, count as 'het reproduceren van zijn perspublicatie voor online gebruik door een dienstverlener van de informatiemaatschappij' in artikel 7b, eerste lid, the questions referred to the Court of Justice in Case C-250/25?
What this law does
The publisher of a press publication has the exclusive right to authorize the online reproduction and the making available to the public of its press publication by an information-society-service provider, per Article 7b(1). The right does not reach private or non-commercial use by individual users, hyperlinking to a press publication, the use of single words or very short fragments, or the use of a work whose own protection term has expired, per Article 7b(2).
The right cannot be invoked against the author, performer, or producer whose own protected material is embedded in the press publication, per Article 7b(3). The author of a literary, scientific, or artistic work carried in a press publication is entitled to an appropriate share of the revenue the publisher receives for the work's use by an information-society-service provider, per Article 7b(5).
The rights of press publishers lapse two years after 1 January of the year following the year the press publication was made public, per Article 12, paragraph 7.
When LexLint raises it
When your app profile says your app reuses other publishers' content.
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