OmanLaw on Copyright and Neighboring Rights, news exclusion and press-reproduction exception
Royal Decree No. 65/2008, Arts. 4, 20(4)
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In force since 18 May 2008.
A snippet reproduction rule binding public and private bodies.
As of 6 September 2026.
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Article 4 excludes ideas, procedures, working methods, mathematical concepts, principles, discoveries, and data from copyright protection, and separately excludes official documents and news of the day and current events that are mere journalistic information; a compilation or arrangement of that excluded material, or any creation or intellectual effort behind it, is nonetheless protected where it is itself distinguished.
Article 20(4) permits the press to reproduce, broadcast, or make available to the public portions of articles published in newspapers or periodicals on current economic, political, or religious topics, and broadcast works of the same character, provided the right owner did not expressly reserve that right at the time of publication.
The Law creates no press-publisher neighbouring right, no compelled platform-to-publisher bargaining regime, and no hot-news or misappropriation doctrine distinct from ordinary copyright law, and it predates the concept of a machine-readable text-and-data-mining reservation, so no opt-out mechanism of that kind exists either.
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