Copyright Act (1970), Quotation Exception
Act on Protection of Authors, Composers and Artists Rights, 1970, Art. 7 (quotation exception)
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Article 7 permits quoting from a published work and referring to it, but only for literary, scientific, technical or educational purposes, and in criticism or praise, provided the source of the quotation is named and the customary limitations are observed; a note excuses naming the source only where a teacher reproduces the work for non-commercial classroom use.
The list is closed and names no general news-reporting, press-summary or commentary-on-current-events category distinct from criticism or praise, and no text-and-data-mining or automated-processing purpose.
Article 23 makes publishing, distributing or broadcasting the whole or part of another person's protected work without permission, or under a false attribution, an offence carrying corrective imprisonment of six months to three years, which is the penalty a reproduction falling outside Article 7's closed list would face. The WIPO Lex record gives only the Act's adoption date, 12 January 1970, and no separate entry-into-force date.
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Criminal exposure note
Publishing, distributing or broadcasting the whole or part of a protected work without permission, or under a false attribution, is corrective imprisonment of six months to three years (Art. 23), which is the exposure a reproduction outside Article 7's closed quotation list would face.
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