VietnamPress Law, news aggregation website
Law No. 103/2016/QH13, Article 36
A snippet reproduction rule binding public and private bodies.
- Instrument type
- an act of a legislature
What it requires
- If you run a news aggregation website, quote journalistic news sources verbatim and accurately.
- Show, for aggregated information, the name of the author, the name of the press agency and the time of publication or transmission.
- Do not aggregate content that violates the Law's content prohibitions at clause 13, Article 9.
- Develop an information management process to examine, monitor and remove prohibited content, on your own initiative or at the request of a competent state agency, if you are the agency or organization that established the site.
- Remove an aggregated content item as soon as the quoted source itself removes that content.
- Follow any Government regulations on establishing a news aggregation website if you are an agency, organization or enterprise doing so.
These lines are LexLint's reading of the law's text.
Who enforces it
Enforcement body
The Ministry of Information and Communications, which under Article 7 takes responsibility before the Government for the state management of the press, coordinating with other ministries and provincial People's Committees within their respective ambits.
What this law does
Press Law No. 103/2016/QH13 ceased to be effective on , when the replacing Press Law (Law No. 126/2025/QH15, promulgated ) took effect, so Article 36 no longer binds anyone. Article 36 required a news aggregation website to quote journalistic news sources verbatim and accurately, and to show the name of the author, the name of the press agency, and the time of publication or transmission of the aggregated information.
The aggregated content must not violate the Law's content prohibitions at clause 13, Article 9, and the establishing agency or organization must develop an information management process to examine, monitor, and remove prohibited content on its own initiative or on the request of a competent state agency.
An aggregator had to remove an aggregated content item as soon as the quoted source itself removes that content, and the establishment of a news aggregation website by an agency, organization, or enterprise had to further comply with regulations of the Government, whose content is not described here.
When LexLint raises it
When your app profile says your app reuses other publishers' content.
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