Höfundalög nr. 73/1972, Art. 14, Quotation Exception
Höfundalög nr. 73/1972 (Copyright Act), 14. gr.
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What this law does
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Article 14 permits, without the copyright owner's consent, a quotation from a published literary work, including a stage work, and a published film work or musical work, where the quotation is made in connection with criticism, science, general presentation, or another recognised purpose, provided it is made within reasonable limits and the material quoted is correctly represented.
The same conditions permit publishing images and drawings of published works of art. The provision carries no headline-length or short-extract cap distinct from this fair-practice test, is not restricted to press or news content, and no reported Icelandic decision applies it to a systematic news aggregator rather than an individual quoting a published work.
The Act's own consolidated text carries no separate press-publisher neighbouring right and no text-and-data-mining opt-out exception of the kind the EU's Digital Single Market Copyright Directive would add once incorporated into the EEA Agreement. The provision's own commencement date is not stated in the consolidated text or in the sources checked, and it carries no amendment footnote in the current text, indicating it is original to the 1972 Act.
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