Law 2121/1993 Article 51B, Press Publisher Neighbouring Right

A press publisher established in an EU member state has the exclusive right to authorise or prohibit the online reproduction, in whole or in part, and the making available to the public of its press publications by an information-society-service provider, under new Article 51B of Law 2121/1993.

The right excludes private or non-commercial use by individual users, hyperlinking, and the use of single words or very short extracts whose use does not harm the publisher's investment, and it does not affect the rights of the authors and other rightholders whose works are incorporated in the press publication. The right lasts two years from the first of January following the press publication's publication date.

Publishers owe the journalists who created the incorporated works a share of the annual revenue the publisher earns from information-society-service providers for the use of its press publications, set at 25 percent for a publisher whose enterprise employs fewer than 60 percent of its journalists under a subordinate employment contract, and 15 percent for a publisher above that threshold; this journalist share is non-assignable other than to a collective-management organisation, and a contrary contractual term is void.