TurkeyLaw on Intellectual and Artistic Works, Reproduction Right and Quotation
Law No. 5846 (Fikir ve Sanat Eserleri Kanunu), Arts. 22, 35 and 38
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Read from a public archive copy, not the publisher directly. The publisher does not serve this page to automated readers, so a direct fetch was not an option here; how we access sources. Archived 2026. Publisher's page: https://www.mevzuat.gov.tr/mevzuatmetin/1.3.5846.pdfIn force since .
A copyright and text and data mining (TDM) rule binding public and private bodies.
- Instrument type
- an act of a legislature
- Obligation class
- Prohibition
What it requires
- Do not reproduce a work's original or copies, in whole or in part, by any method, directly or indirectly, temporarily or permanently, without the author's permission (Art. 22).
- Quote from a work only in the cases Art. 35 lists and make the quotation recognizable; in a scientific work, state the work, its author and the place the passage was taken from (Art. 35).
- Copy a work for personal use only where the copying is not for profit and does not unjustifiably harm the right holder's legitimate interests or conflict with normal exploitation of the work (Art. 38).
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If you get it wrong
Criminal exposureYes
Private right of actionYes
Criminal exposure note
Art. 71(1): reproducing, distributing, communicating to the public or otherwise exploiting a work without the right holders' written permission carries imprisonment of one to five years or a judicial fine.
What this law does
Article 22 gives the author the exclusive right to reproduce a work's original or copies by any method, in whole or in part, directly or indirectly, temporarily or permanently. Article 35 permits quotation from a work in four listed cases, such as taking sentences and passages of a published work into an independent scientific or literary work, and requires the quotation to be made recognizable.
Article 38 permits copying for personal use where the copying is not for profit, does not unjustifiably harm the right holder's legitimate interests and does not conflict with normal exploitation of the work. Article 71(1) makes it an offence to reproduce, distribute or communicate to the public a work without the right holders' written permission, punished by imprisonment of one to five years or a judicial fine.
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