Sao Tome and PrincipeDecreto-Lei n.º 02/2017, exclusão das notícias do dia, revista de imprensa e citação
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A snippet reproduction rule binding public and private bodies.
- Instrument type
- an act of a legislature
- Obligation class
- Attribution, Access restriction
What it requires
- You need not obtain permission to use news of the day or reports of events disclosed as simple information: article 7(1)(a) excludes them from copyright protection altogether.
- For protected material, you may publish, without the author's consent, a regular selection of periodical press articles in the form of a press review (art. 75(2)(c)).
- You may fix, reproduce or communicate short excerpts of a work when their use in reporting a current event is justified for information purposes (art. 75(2)(d)).
- You may insert citations or summaries of another's work in support of your own views or for criticism, discussion or teaching (art. 75(2)(g)).
- You may reproduce or communicate an already-accessible current-affairs article on an economic, political or religious topic, or a broadcast work or material of like character, unless its reproduction or broadcast right has been expressly reserved (art. 75(2)(l)).
- Name the author and publisher where possible and, for some of these uses, pay equitable remuneration (art. 76).
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.
- NIST AI 600-1
- GAI-RISK-09Information Security
- GAI-RISK-10Intellectual Property
- GAI-RISK-12Value Chain and Component Integration
- OWASP LLM Top 10
- LLM03:2026Excessive Agency
- OWASP Agentic Top 10
- ASI03Identity and Privilege Abuse
- MIT mitigations Draft
- FINOS AIGF
- AIR-PREV-007Legal and Contractual Frameworks for AI Systems
- AIR-PREV-018Agent Authority Least Privilege Framework
- AIR-PREV-023Agentic System Credential Protection Framework
- AIR-DET-013Providing Citations and Source Traceability for AI-Generated Information
- ETSI EN 304 223
- 5.1.2-6Access the AI system gets to other systems and data sources is minimal and risk assessed.
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
Identifiers refer to ETSI EN 304 223 V2.1.1 (2025-12), © ETSI 2025, all rights reserved. ETSI owns the standard; no ETSI text (titles or sentences) is reproduced here. The standard is free to download from ETSI.
If you get it wrong
Criminal exposureYes
Criminal exposure note
Article 197 punishes reproducing a protected work outside these exceptions with imprisonment of up to three years and a fine of 150 to 250 days, doubled on a repeated offense; negligence is punishable with a fine of 50 to 150 days.
Who enforces it
Enforcement body
Direcção-Geral da Cultura and the Ministério da Cultura (public-domain works); ordinary civil and criminal courts
What this law does
Article 7(1)(a) excludes news of the day and reports of various events disclosed as simple information from copyright protection altogether, so a purely factual news item carries no copyright to begin with. For material that is protected, article 75(2)(c) permits, without the author's consent, a regular selection of periodical press articles in the form of a press review.
Article 75(2)(d) permits fixing, reproducing, or communicating short excerpts of a work when their use in reporting a current event is justified for information purposes. Article 75(2)(g) permits inserting citations or summaries of another's work in support of one's own views or for criticism, discussion, or teaching.
Article 75(2)(l) permits reproducing or communicating an already-accessible current-affairs article on an economic, political, or religious topic, or a broadcast work or material of like character, unless its reproduction or broadcast right has been expressly reserved. Article 76 conditions this free use on naming the author and publisher where possible and, for some of these uses, paying equitable remuneration.
None of these provisions states a length limit or a headline-only threshold, and no reported São Toméan decision testing whether a systematic aggregator's reproduction of headlines and snippets, as distinct from a traditional press review, falls within either exception has been located.
Sao Tome and Principe has no separate press-publisher neighbouring right, no compelled platform-to-publisher bargaining regime, no recognized hot-news or misappropriation doctrine distinct from ordinary copyright law, and no case law on hyperlinking or framed display has been located.
Article 3(1)(b) protects a compilation as a copyright work only where its selection or arrangement of contents is itself an original creation, and the Code creates no sui generis database right and no text-and-data-mining exception or machine-readable opt-out mechanism. Article 229 puts the Code into force on the date of its publication, which the Diário da República issue carrying it dates to .
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