Copyright and Related Rights Law, News and Press-Review Free Uses

Article 14 excludes laws, judicial and administrative decisions, their official translations, and news of the day published, broadcast, or communicated to the public, from the Law's field of application, so bare news is never a protected work regardless of who first reported it.

Article 33(1)(b) permits, without the author's consent, inserting quotations from a lawfully published work into another work, in the original language or in translation, provided the quotation conforms to fair practice, is limited to what its purpose justifies, and names the source and the author, and the provision expressly extends to quotations of newspaper articles and periodicals in the form of press reviews.

Article 33(2) permits reproducing a lawfully published newspaper or periodical article on a current economic, political, or religious topic, or a broadcast work of the same character, in the press, or communicating it to the public, provided the source is clearly indicated; this use is not licit if the article, at the time of its publication, or the broadcast work, at the time of its broadcast, carried an express reservation that such use is prohibited.

Article 107 provides that the Law is to be executed as a law of the State and published in the Journal Officiel, without stating a separate commencement date.