Law No. 1/021 of December 30, 2005 on the Protection of Copyright and Related Rights, news and press-review exceptions (Article 26(2)) and facts exclusion (Article 7)

Article 7 excludes acts, legal decisions and administrative decisions and their official translations, daily news published, broadcast or communicated in public, 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 Burundian law, whichever outlet reports it first.

Article 26(1)(b) separately lets any person, once a work has been lawfully published, quote from it in another work, including quotations from newspaper articles and periodicals in the form of press summaries, provided the quotation is compatible with fair practice, does not exceed the extent justified by its purpose, and the source and the author's name are mentioned.

Article 26(2) lets a current economic, political or religious news article published in a newspaper or periodical, or a broadcast of the same character, be reproduced in the press or communicated to the public, subject to the source being clearly indicated, unless the article as published, or the work as broadcast, was itself accompanied by an express condition prohibiting such use, meaning the publisher can reserve the reproduction right in advance.

Neither exception is capped at a headline-length or short-extract threshold and neither is confined to the press industry; whether either 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 Burundian decision.

Burundi 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.