Loi n°2005-30 relative à la protection du droit d'auteur et des droits voisins, exception de reproduction de presse et de comptes rendus d'actualité, et exclusion des nouvelles du jour

Article 9 excludes official legislative, administrative, or judicial texts and their official translations, the news of the day, and ideas, procedures, systems, methods, concepts, principles, discoveries, or bare data from copyright protection outright: a bare fact, or the news of the day as such, is never a protected work under Beninese law, whichever outlet reports it first.

Article 16 lets the press, broadcasting, or television reproduce, for informational purposes and subject to naming the author and source, political, economic, or socio-cultural articles published in original or translated form, and public speeches delivered before political, judicial, administrative, or religious assemblies or at public political gatherings and official ceremonies, but only where the copyright holder has not expressly reserved the reproduction right.

Article 17 separately lets a photographer, filmmaker, or sound or visual broadcaster, when covering a current event, lawfully record, reproduce, and communicate to the public the literary works encountered in the course of that coverage, to the extent justified by the informational purpose.

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 outlet's own reporting, has not been tested in a reported Beninese decision.

Benin 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.