Bangui Agreement (revised 1999), Annex VII, Free Use for Informatory Purposes

The Central African Republic is a member state of the African Intellectual Property Organization (OAPI), and the Bangui Agreement as revised on February 24, 1999 states that it and its annexes apply in their entirety to every State that ratifies or accedes to it, so its Annex VII copyright regime governs literary and artistic property in the Central African Republic directly, without need of separate domestic transposition.

Article 16 of Annex VII permits, without the author's consent and without payment, reproducing in the press, broadcasting, or communicating to the public an economic, political, or religious article already published in a newspaper or periodical, provided the source and author are credited, unless the right of reproduction has been expressly reserved; the same article separately permits reporting on current events and reproducing political speeches and public addresses for informational purposes.

Annex VII creates no press-publisher neighbouring right, no compelled platform-to-publisher bargaining regime, no hot-news or misappropriation doctrine distinct from ordinary copyright, and no machine-readable text-and-data-mining opt-out; it also predates any Central African case law testing whether the press exception reaches a systematic aggregator's reproduction of headlines and snippets, as opposed to a traditional press review.