QatarCopyright Protection Law, press-article reproduction exception
In force since .
A snippet reproduction rule binding public and private bodies.
- Instrument type
- an act of a legislature
What it requires
- You may reproduce, broadcast or otherwise communicate to the public an article published in a newspaper or periodical on current political, economic, social, cultural or religious topics (or a broadcast work of the same character), clearly indicating the source and the author's name where known (art. 19).
- Do not use that permission where the author has explicitly reserved the right of reproduction or communication to the public; a publisher can withdraw it for its own content by express reservation, and a reproduction outside its conditions is an ordinary infringement (arts. 19, 48).
- You need not obtain permission to use daily news and other news of a mere informatory nature: article 4(2) excludes it from copyright protection altogether.
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.
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
What this law does
Article 19 permits reproducing an article in a newspaper or periodical, or broadcasting or otherwise communicating to the public an article published in a newspaper or periodical on current political, economic, social, cultural, or religious topics (or a broadcast work of the same character), subject to clearly indicating the source and the author's name where known.
The permission does not apply where the author has explicitly reserved the right of reproduction or communication to the public, so a publisher can withdraw the exception for its own content by express reservation. Article 4(2) separately excludes daily news and other news of a mere informatory nature from copyright protection altogether, so a bare factual news item carries no copyright interest to begin with, independent of article 19's conditional permission for full articles.
Neighbouring rights under article 1's definitions protect performers, sound-recording producers, and broadcasting organisations, not a print or online news publisher as such, so no press-publisher neighbouring right of the kind the European Union's Digital Single Market Directive article 15 creates exists in Qatar. A reproduction that does not meet article 19's conditions, or that a publisher has reserved, is an ordinary infringement under article 48.
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