Loi n°048-2019/AN du 12 novembre 2019 portant protection de la propriété littéraire et artistique, database and news exceptions
Loi n°048-2019/AN Database and News-Facts Exclusions (Arts. 10 et 22), portant protection de la propriété littéraire et artistique, 12 novembre 2019
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In force since 23 December 2019.
A database right rule binding public and private bodies.
As of 4 September 2026.
What it requires
- Treat a database compiled through the selection or arrangement of its contents as a protected work: do not reproduce all or a substantial part of it without the rights holder's authorization, even for otherwise-permitted private use.
- Rely only on the Law's enumerated exceptions rather than a general fair-use or text-and-data-mining defense when quoting, analyzing, or reproducing a protected work: a short quotation or analysis, a press review, or current-events reporting, each requiring clear credit to the author and source, and none framed as covering AI training.
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What it reaches
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Attribution
What this law does
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Burkina Faso's copyright statute, which repealed and replaced the 1999 literary and artistic property law. Article 10 excludes official legislative, administrative, or judicial texts and their official translations, the news of the day, and mere facts and data from copyright protection outright.
Article 22 lists the private-copy exception's limits and expressly excludes reproducing the whole or a substantial part of a database from it, which means a database is treated as a protected compilation whose substantial reproduction the rights holder can otherwise prevent; there is no separate sui generis database right of the EU kind.
Article 23 lets a person, once a work has been lawfully disclosed and its author and source are clearly credited, make short critical, polemical, pedagogical, scientific, or informational quotations and analyses, compile press reviews, and reproduce or broadcast, even in full and in original or translated form, current political, social, economic, or religious news articles and public speeches for current-events informational purposes.
None of these exceptions is framed as a text-and-data-mining carve-out, and nothing in the Law addresses AI training specifically.
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Loi n°048-2019/AN, full text as republished by WIPO Lex, WIPO's own legislative database