Law No. 82 of 2002 on the Protection of Intellectual Property Rights, quotation and analysis exception (Book Three, Art. 171(4))
Law No. 82 of 2002 News Quotation Exception (Book Three), on the Protection of Intellectual Property Rights, as amended by Law No. 178 of 2020
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In force since 3 June 2002.
A snippet reproduction rule binding public and private bodies.
As of 2 September 2026.
What this law does
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Article 171(4) permits any person, without the author's authorization and after a work's publication, to "make an analysis of the work, or excerpts or quotations therefrom, for the purpose of criticism, discussion or information."
The exception is not tied to the news media specifically and carries no headline-versus-substantial-extract threshold of its own; whether it reaches an aggregator's systematic reproduction of headlines and snippets, as opposed to an individual's quotation for commentary, has not been tested in a reported Egyptian decision.
Egypt 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.
What it reaches
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statute
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Snippet reproduction
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Law No. 82 of 2002 on the Protection of Intellectual Property Rights
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