Copyright and Neighboring Rights Law, Press and Current-Events Reproduction Exception

Article 11 permits a newspaper or periodical, without the copyright owner's authorization, to reproduce, broadcast, or otherwise communicate to the public a published newspaper or periodical article, or a broadcast work of the same character, on current economic, political, or religious topics, provided the source and, as far as practicable, the author's name are indicated; this permission does not apply where the author has expressly reserved the right to authorize such reproduction.

The same article separately permits reproducing short excerpts of a work seen or heard during a current event, for the purpose of reporting that event and to the extent justified by that purpose, and permits a newspaper or periodical to reproduce a political speech, lecture, address, or similar work delivered in public. The exception carries no headline-length or short-extract cap distinct from the extent-justified-by-purpose test.

Article 4 separately excludes mere facts and data, and any official legislative, administrative, or judicial text, from copyright protection outright, so a bare fact or news item is never a protected work regardless of who reports it first.