Copyright and Neighboring Rights Act, quotation, press-review and current-events exceptions

Article 10 excludes ideas, methods, procedures, concepts or information as such, official legislative, administrative or judicial texts and their official translations, and mere data and facts as such, from copyright protection outright, so a bare fact or the news of the day as such is never a protected work under Ivorian law, whichever outlet reports it first.

Article 25 separately lets any person, once a work has been disclosed, make analyses, press reviews and short quotations justified by a critical, polemical, educational, scientific or informational purpose, and use a literary, artistic or scientific work to illustrate teaching, in each case provided the use is not abusive, carries no lucrative purpose, and credits the author's name and the source.

Article 26 lets a literary work seen or heard during a current event be reproduced and made accessible to the public, by short extracts and for an informational purpose, on the occasion of a report of that event, by photography, audiovisual means or broadcast, again subject to crediting the author and source, and provided reproduction or broadcasting rights were not expressly reserved.

Neither article is capped at a headline-length threshold beyond its own critical, educational or informational-purpose test, 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 Ivorian decision.

Côte d'Ivoire 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.