Vatican CityCopyright and related rights by reference to Italian law (Legge N. CXCVII)
In force since .
A copyright and text and data mining (TDM) rule binding public and private bodies.
- Obligation class
- Attribution
- Audit expectation
- none
What it requires
- Treat a work protected under the copyright and related-rights legislation in force in Italy as protected in Vatican City State too, including a future amendment Italy makes to that legislation, unless this law states an exception.
- Do not reproduce the Pope's image, voice, speeches, or writings, or the published texts of Holy See or Vatican City State laws and official acts, without regard to the copyright and personality-right protections this law states for them.
- Do not photograph or otherwise reproduce Vatican City State's protected cultural property unless you are the institution that holds custody of it.
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.
- NIST AI 600-1
- GAI-RISK-10Intellectual Property
- MIT mitigations Draft
- 3.2Data Governance
- FINOS AIGF
- AIR-PREV-007Legal and Contractual Frameworks for AI Systems
- AIR-DET-013Providing Citations and Source Traceability for AI-Generated Information
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Who enforces it
Enforcement body
The Commission for Intellectual Property (art. 7), chaired by the Assessor of the Secretariat of State, coordinates administration of the imported regime and mediates disputes among the rightsholders article 5 covers; for the Roman Pontiff's own personality rights, the Secretary of State litigates directly.
What it makes you log
Logging duty
The Law applies Italian copyright legislation in Vatican City State and adds rules for the published texts of the Holy See and the State, the writings, image and voice of the Roman Pontiff, reproductions of cultural property, and the rights of the Holy See and the State in works made in their name. It creates an intellectual property commission that meets at least twice a year (Art. 7) but states no duty on a person to create, keep, produce or review a log or record, no audit and no power to demand records, and no territorial clause beyond applying the rules in Vatican City State, so no hook is recorded. The Italian legislation it incorporates by reference is not read here.
- Kind
- None
- As of
What this law does
Legge N. CXCVII of repealed Vatican City State's prior copyright statute, Legge N. CXXXII of , and entered into force on (art. 8).
Vatican City State has no autonomous copyright code of its own scope: article 1 § 1 provides that, except as this law states otherwise, Vatican City State observes the copyright and related-rights legislation in force in Italy, including its implementing regulations, so long as that legislation is not contrary to divine law, the general principles of canon law, the Lateran Pacts, or an international agreement the Holy See has joined, and so long as it is applicable given Vatican City State's own factual and legal situation; article 1 § 2 provides that a future amendment to Italian copyright legislation is automatically received into Vatican City State's own law on the same terms.
The law's own additions to that imported regime are narrow: article 2 extends copyright and related-rights protection to the published texts of Holy See and Vatican City State laws and official acts; article 3 protects the writings, speeches, image, and voice of the Roman Pontiff, and of emeritus and deceased Pontiffs, against exposure, reproduction, or commercial use without the Secretary of State's consent where doing so would prejudice his honour or dignity, with the Secretary of State empowered to litigate those rights before Vatican and foreign courts; article 4 confines the right to photograph or otherwise reproduce Vatican City State's protected cultural property to the institutions that hold custody of it, for a 70-year term from first fixation; and article 5 vests copyright in works the Holy See or Vatican City State create or publish under their own name, for 70 years from first publication or from the author's death where named, with article 6 preserving moral rights of attribution and integrity regardless of any transfer of the economic rights.
Article 7 creates a Commission for Intellectual Property, chaired by the Assessor of the Secretariat of State, that coordinates administration of the imported regime and mediates disputes among the entities article 5 covers.
The law states no independent Vatican City State text-and-data-mining exception, quotation right, or database right of its own; whatever such a right or exception exists is only the one the imported Italian legislation itself provides, and its current content is a question for Italian law rather than for this statute's own text.
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