Loi n°2005-30 relative à la protection du droit d'auteur et des droits voisins, exclusion des nouvelles du jour et protection des bases de données comme compilations
Loi n°2005-30 du 05 avril 2006 Exclusions des Nouvelles du Jour et des Bases de Données, relative à la protection du droit d'auteur et des droits voisins
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In force since 5 April 2006.
A database right rule binding public and private bodies.
As of 4 September 2026.
What it requires
- Treat a database compiled through the selection, coordination, 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 though the underlying facts and data are not themselves protected.
- Treat the news of the day, official texts, and bare ideas, facts, or data as outside copyright protection regardless of who first published them.
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Criminal exposure note
Piracy of a literary or artistic work (reproduction without the copyright or related-rights holder's prior authorization and the collective management body's authorization) is punished by three months to two years' imprisonment and a fine of 500,000 to 10,000,000 CFA francs, or either penalty alone, without prejudice to civil damages (Art. 109-110); the penalty doubles on a repeat offense (Art. 114).
What this law does
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Benin's copyright statute, adopted by the National Assembly on 9 August 2005 and again on 12 January 2006 after a Constitutional Court conformity decision, promulgated on 5 April 2006.
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, whether or not those are stated, described, explained, illustrated, or incorporated in a work.
Article 8 separately protects, as works, collections of works, folklore expressions, or bare facts or data, such as encyclopedias, anthologies, and databases, whether reproduced on a machine-readable medium or any other form, when the selection, coordination, or arrangement of their contents constitutes an intellectual creation; the protection reaches only that selection, coordination, or arrangement, and not the underlying facts or data themselves, and there is no separate sui generis database right of the EU kind.
Piracy of literary and artistic works, meaning reproduction without the prior authorization of the copyright or related-rights holders and the collective management body, is a criminal offense punished under Art. 108 to 110 by three months to two years' imprisonment and a fine of 500,000 to 10,000,000 CFA francs, or either penalty alone, without prejudice to damages.
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Loi n°2005-30 du 05 avril 2006, official text as republished by WIPO Lex