UkraineCopyright Law, Quotation and Press-Review Exception
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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://zakon.rada.gov.ua/laws/show/2811-20In force since .
A snippet reproduction rule binding public and private bodies.
What it requires
- You may use quotations from lawfully published works, including in translation and newspaper or journal articles as press reviews, without consent or payment, if you attribute the author and source, the quotation is justified by the critical, polemical, scholarly or informational character of the work it goes into, and its boundaries are marked semantically or graphically.
- You may reproduce and distribute in the press, or communicate to the public, a previously published newspaper or magazine article on a current economic, political, religious or social topic, unless the author has specifically prohibited such reproduction, distribution or communication to the public.
- You may communicate to the public a work seen or heard in the course of a current event for the purpose of reporting that event, to the extent that reporting purpose requires.
These lines are LexLint's reading of the law's text.
What this law does
Article 22(2)(1) permits, without the rightsholder's consent and without payment but with attribution of the author and the source, the use of quotations, including in translation, from lawfully published works, including articles from newspapers and journals in the form of press reviews, where justified by the critical, polemical, scholarly or informational character of the work into which the quotation is included, with the quotation's boundaries marked semantically or graphically.
Article 22(2)(5) separately permits reproducing and distributing in the press, or communicating to the public, a previously published newspaper or magazine article on a current economic, political, religious or social topic, in cases where the author has not specifically prohibited such reproduction, distribution or communication to the public.
Article 22(2)(6) permits communicating to the public a work seen or heard in the course of a current event for the purpose of reporting that event, to the extent that reporting purpose requires.
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