ChadLoi n°005/PR/2003 sur la protection du droit d'auteur, press review and current-events exception (art. 34) and news-of-the-day exclusion (art. 9)
In force.
A snippet reproduction rule binding public and private bodies.
- Instrument type
- an act of a legislature
What it requires
- You need not license the news of the day, mere facts and data, or official legislative, administrative or judicial texts and their official translations: they are excluded from copyright, so a bare news item is never a protected work, whichever outlet reports it first.
- Once a work has been lawfully disclosed, you may make short critical, polemical, pedagogical, scientific or informative analyses and quotations from it, and compile press reviews, if you clearly credit the author's name and the source.
- You may reproduce or broadcast, even in full, current political, social, economic or religious news articles, and public speeches, sermons, lectures and addresses delivered before political, administrative, judicial or academic assemblies, for current-events informational purposes, if you clearly credit the author and the source. It is not limited to the press industry.
These lines are LexLint's reading of the law's text.
What this law does
Article 9 excludes official legislative, administrative, or judicial texts and their official translations, the news of the day, and mere facts and data from copyright protection outright: a bare fact, or the news of the day as such, is never a protected work under Chadian law, whichever outlet reports it first.
Article 34(3) separately lets any person, once a work has been lawfully disclosed, and provided the author's name and source are clearly credited, make short critical, polemical, pedagogical, scientific, or informative analyses and quotations, compile press reviews, and reproduce or broadcast, even in full, current political, social, economic, or religious news articles and public speeches delivered before political, administrative, judicial, or academic assemblies, and sermons, lectures, and addresses, for current-events informational purposes.
The text does not cap the exception at a headline-length or short-extract threshold and does not confine it to the press industry. The Law names no day for its entry into force, and no Journal officiel issue or commencement notice for it has been located.
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