FSM Copyright Act, fair use exception reaching news reporting
FSM Code Title 35, Ch. 1, sec. 107 (Limitation on exclusive rights - Fair use)
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As of 5 September 2026.
What this law does
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Section 107 of the FSM Copyright Act exempts the fair use of a copyrighted work, including reproduction, for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, or research, from copyright infringement, weighed against the purpose and commercial character of the use, the nature of the work, the amount used relative to the whole, and the effect on the work's potential market.
Section 101 defines a compilation as an original work of authorship where preexisting material or data is selected, coordinated, or arranged, and section 103 confines a compilation's protection to the compiler's own contribution rather than the underlying material assembled into it.
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Official text of the FSM Code
Title 35, Chapter 1 (Copyrights), as codified by the Legislative Information System (LIS) Project for the Congress of the Federated States of Micronesia