ThailandCopyright Act, news reporting and quotation exceptions
Copyright Act B.E. 2537 (1994), Section 32 paragraph two (4) and Section 33
In force since .
A snippet reproduction rule binding public and private bodies.
- Instrument type
- an act of a legislature
What it requires
- You may report news through mass media without infringing copyright, if you acknowledge the ownership of the copyright in the work reported on.
- You may make a reasonable recitation, quotation, copying, emulation or reference in part from a copyright work, if you acknowledge the ownership of the copyright.
- Do not use either exception where the act conflicts with a normal exploitation of the work or unreasonably prejudices the owner's legitimate rights; reproducing more than a short, attributed excerpt, or enough to substitute for the original article, falls outside a plain reading of either ground.
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
Section 32 paragraph two (4) excepts news reporting through mass media that acknowledges the ownership of copyright in the work reported on. Section 33 separately excepts a reasonable recitation, quotation, copying, emulation, or reference in part from a copyright work, again with an acknowledgement of ownership.
Both exceptions are subject to Section 32 paragraph one's general condition that the act not conflict with a normal exploitation of the work and not unreasonably prejudice the owner's legitimate rights, so an aggregator reproducing more than a short, attributed excerpt, or reproducing enough that it substitutes for the original article, sits outside a plain reading of either ground.
Thailand has no separate press-publisher neighbouring right and no compelled bargaining code requiring a platform to pay a publisher for carrying its headlines or snippets.
When LexLint raises it
When your app profile says your app reuses other publishers' content.
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