Loi n°048-2019/AN du 12 novembre 2019 portant protection de la propriété littéraire et artistique, press review and current-events exception (Art. 23) and facts exclusion (Art. 10)

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: a bare fact, or the news of the day as such, is never a protected work under Burkinabe law, whichever outlet reports it first.

Article 23 separately lets any person, once a work has been lawfully disclosed, and provided the author's name 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 delivered before political, administrative, judicial, or academic assemblies, for current-events informational purposes.

The exception is not capped at a headline-length or short-extract threshold and is not confined to the press industry; whether it reaches a systematic aggregator's reproduction of headlines and snippets, as opposed to a traditional press review or a broadcaster's current-events report, has not been tested in a reported Burkinabe decision.

Burkina Faso has no separate press-publisher neighbouring right, no compelled platform-to-publisher bargaining regime, no recognized hot-news or misappropriation doctrine distinct from ordinary copyright and unfair-competition law, and no located case law on hyperlinking or framed display.