Décret du 12 octobre 2005 sur le Droit d'Auteur, exclusion de l'actualité et des simples faits
Décret du 12 octobre 2005, Droit d'Auteur, actualité
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In force since 9 March 2006.
A snippet reproduction rule binding public and private bodies.
As of 5 September 2026.
What this law does
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The Decree excludes from copyright protection official legislative, administrative, or judicial texts and their official translations, the news of the day, and ideas, procedures, systems, operating methods, concepts, principles, discoveries, or mere facts or data, even where these are stated, described, explained, illustrated, or incorporated in a work.
The same provision recognizes a compilation of works, folklore expressions, or mere facts or data, such as an encyclopedia, anthology, or database, whether reproduced on a machine-exploitable medium or in any other form, as a protected work where the choice, coordination, or arrangement of its contents constitutes an intellectual creation.
The Decree carries no general quotation or press-review exception for reproducing a headline or article text from a protected literary work; its only citation exception, limited to short fragments of a performance, phonogram, or broadcast used to report a current event, sits in the chapter on neighbouring rights and does not reach a written news article. The Decree replaced and repealed the earlier Décret du 9 janvier 1968 on copyright.
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French text of the Decree
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