Law on Copyright and Related Rights, quotation and news-article reproduction exceptions
In force since .
A snippet reproduction rule binding public and private bodies.
- Instrument type
- an act of a legislature
What it requires
- You may quote a published work, in the original or in translation, for scientific, research, polemical, critical or non-promotional information purposes, including press-review excerpts from newspaper and magazine articles, to the extent the purpose justifies, if you name the author and the source and do not harm the work's normal use or the author's legitimate interests.
- You may reproduce in newspapers, or communicate by broadcast or cable, articles already published in newspapers or magazines on current political, economic, social or religious issues, or broadcast works of the same nature, unless the author has specifically prohibited such use.
- Check for the author's prohibition before relying on the second exception: it is an author opt-out, not an unconditional licence.
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
Article 26 permits, with the author's name and the source of borrowing indicated and provided it does not harm the normal use of the work or infringe the author's legitimate interests, quoting a published work in the original or in translation for scientific, research, polemical, critical or non-promotional information purposes to the extent justified by the purpose of quotation, including reproducing excerpts from newspaper and magazine articles in the form of press reviews.
The same article separately permits reproducing in newspapers, or communicating by broadcast or cable, articles already published in newspapers or magazines on current political, economic, social or religious issues, or broadcast works of the same nature, unless the author has specifically prohibited such use, so the exception is an author opt-out rather than an unconditional licence. Article 26 carries no headline-length or short-extract cap distinct from the purpose-justified test in its own text.
When LexLint raises it
When your app profile says your app reuses other publishers' content.
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