El SalvadorLey de Propiedad Intelectual, reproducción de artículos de actualidad y derecho de cita
Decreto Legislativo No. 66 (2024), arts. 46 y 47
In force since .
A snippet reproduction rule binding private bodies.
What it requires
- You may reproduce and distribute in the press, or transmit by any medium, an article on a current economic, social, artistic, political or religious matter published in the media, without authorization or payment, if you indicate the author's name and the source and the use has not been expressly reserved.
- You may reproduce images or sounds of a current event captured in the course of reporting it, and speeches, addresses and similar public remarks reported as news, only to the extent the informational purpose justifies.
- You may include brief fragments of an already lawfully divulged protected work in your own work, without authorization or payment, by way of quotation or for criticism, illustration, teaching or research, if you name the source, title and author.
- Expect the purpose-bound tests above, not a headline-length or short-extract cap, to decide how much you may take.
These lines are LexLint's reading of the law's text.
What this law does
Article 47(a) permits, without the author's authorization or remuneration, provided the author's name and the source are indicated, the reproduction and distribution by the press, or transmission by any medium, of current-events articles on economic, social, artistic, political or religious matters published in the media, unless the reproduction or transmission has been expressly reserved.
Article 47(b) and (c) extend the same treatment to images or sounds of a current event captured in the course of reporting it, and to speeches, addresses and similar public remarks reported as news, in each case only to the extent the informational purpose justifies.
Article 46 separately permits including brief fragments of an already lawfully divulged protected work in another work, without remuneration or the rightholder's authorization, where the inclusion is by way of quotation or for criticism, illustration, teaching or research, and the source, title and author are named.
Neither provision carries a headline-length or short-extract cap distinct from these purpose-bound tests, and no reported Salvadoran decision applies either to a systematic news aggregator rather than an individual press outlet or writer quoting a published work.
When LexLint raises it
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