SyriaLaw on Media, Duty to Cite Source on Republication
Law on Media (Legislative Decree No. 108 of 2011), Art. 96
In force.
A snippet reproduction rule binding public and private bodies.
- Instrument type
- an act of a legislature
What it requires
- Cite the source of any media content (articles, news, investigations, programs, notes, comments or similar material) that you transmit or publish, including on a network communication outlet whose published content any individual can access.
- Cite the source even where the content is not protected by copyright or the source has not reserved its rights: the duty is not conditioned on either.
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.
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What this law does
Article 96 punishes, with a fine of twenty thousand to one hundred thousand Syrian pounds, whoever transmits or publishes any media content without citing the source it was taken from, without prejudice to the injured party's right to seek compensation.
The Law defines media content broadly, as the body of information of interest to a recipient in the form of articles, news, investigations, programs, notes, comments, or similar material, and defines a media outlet to include an electronic media outlet and, specifically, a network communication outlet whose published media content is accessible to any individual over the network.
Article 96 is not conditioned on the reproduced content being protected by copyright and applies regardless of whether the source has reserved its rights, so it functions as a general attribution mandate on republication rather than a press-publisher neighbouring right of the kind the European Union's Digital Single Market Directive Article 15 creates, and it carries no separate exclusive right, term, or licensing mechanism.
No provision read in this Law addresses hyperlinking, framing, or inline display, and no reported Syrian decision applies Article 96 to a systematic news aggregator. Article 4 of the decree issuing the Law puts it in force at the start of the month following its publication in the Official Gazette, and no Gazette notice giving the publication day has been located.
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