PakistanCopyright Ordinance 1962, fair dealing for reporting current events
Copyright Ordinance 1962, s. 57(1)(b) (fair dealing for reporting current events)
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Section 57(1)(b) excludes from copyright infringement a fair dealing with a literary, dramatic, musical or artistic work for the purpose of reporting current events, in a newspaper, magazine or similar periodical, or by broadcast, in a cinematographic work, or by means of photographs.
The clause names specific media of the kind current in 1962 and does not in terms name a website, online publication, or internet news service, so whether a Pakistani or foreign news aggregator's online reproduction of headlines or snippets falls inside this exception has not been tested and is not addressed by the text itself. Section 1(3) defers the Ordinance's own commencement to a later Gazette notification not reproduced in the text read.
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