Timor-LesteCopyright and Related Rights Code, Press Review and News Exceptions
In force.
A snippet reproduction rule binding public and private bodies.
What it requires
- You may make a regular selection of periodical press articles in the form of a press review without the author's consent.
- You may fix, reproduce and communicate to the public fragments of a literary or artistic work where including them in a news report is justified by the informational purpose, but not so extensively that the reproduction or quotation impairs interest in the quoted work.
- You may reproduce, communicate or make available to the public an article of current affairs or of economic, political or religious discussion, a broadcast work, or other material of the same nature, unless the rights holder has expressly reserved it.
- The press-review and current-affairs exceptions carry no extent cap of their own in the Code.
These lines are LexLint's reading of the law's text.
What this law does
Article 129(2)(c) of the Copyright and Related Rights Code (Law No. 14/2022) permits, without the author's consent, the regular selection of periodical press articles in the form of a press review. Article 129(2)(d) permits the fixation, reproduction and public communication of fragments of a literary or artistic work when their inclusion in a news report is justified by the informational purpose pursued.
Article 129(2)(k) permits the reproduction, communication to the public or making available to the public of an article of current affairs, of economic, political or religious discussion, of a broadcast work, or of other material of the same nature, unless the rights holder has expressly reserved it.
Article 130 requires that a reproduction or quotation under paragraph (d) not be so extensive as to impair interest in the quoted work, but articles 129(2)(c) and 129(2)(k) carry no extent cap of their own in the Code's text. No reported Timorese decision applies any of the three exceptions to a systematic news aggregator rather than an individual press review or news report.
The Code's neighbouring-rights title is confined to artists, phonogram and videogram producers, and broadcasting organisations, so it creates no press-publisher neighbouring right, and the Code contains no reference to a hyperlink or to framing. The Jornal da República published the Code on and Article 176 provides that it enters into force 180 days after the date of its publication, but no source stating the resulting calendar day has been located.
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