YemenLaw No. 15 of 2012 on the Protection of Copyright and Related Rights, news exclusion and press-review exceptions (Arts. 5(3), 40(3), 41(A))
Law No. 15 of 2012 on the Protection of Copyright and Related Rights, arts. 5(3), 40(3), 41(A)
In force since .
A snippet reproduction rule binding public and private bodies.
- Instrument type
- an act of a legislature
What it requires
- You need not license bare news: news of incidents or events that is merely media descriptive material is excluded from copyright, whoever reports it first.
- You may quote items or excerpts from another work for clarification, explanation or critique, including items taken from articles and journalist periodicals, if you give due reference to the source and author.
- You may copy a newspaper, an article in an economic, political or religious periodical, or a similar broadcast program, or transfer it to the public, without the author's or right holder's permission, unless that right is explicitly reserved for them, giving due reference to the source and author.
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What this law does
Article 5(3) excludes the news of incidents or events that is merely media descriptive material from copyright protection, so a bare news item is never a protected work under Yemeni law, whoever reports it first. Article 40(3) permits quoting items or excerpts from another work for the purpose of clarification, explanation, or critique, with due reference to the source and author, and states that this exception applies to items taken from articles and journalist periodicals.
Article 41(A) permits, without the author's or right holder's permission, copying a newspaper, an article in an economic, political, or religious periodical, or a broadcast program of a similar nature, or transferring that article or program to the public, in cases where the right to copy or transfer it to the public is not explicitly reserved for the author or the right holder, with due reference to the source and author.
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