Copyright Law, press-review and quotation exception
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In force since 23 January 1998.
A snippet reproduction rule binding private bodies.
As of 6 September 2026.
What this law does
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Article 8, read in full, excludes 'daily news or information on current events that constitute regular press information' from copyright protection, alongside official documents, official symbols, and works of folk art, so a bare news item is not a copyrighted work to begin with.
Where a work is protected, Article 19(1)(1) permits, without the author's consent or payment of remuneration but on condition that the author's name and the source are given, quotation in the original language or in translation for scientific research, polemic, critical, or informational purposes from lawfully published works to the extent justified by the purpose, expressly including reproduction of extracts from newspaper and magazine articles in press reviews.
Article 19(1)(3), on the same conditions, permits reproducing in newspapers, by broadcast, or by cable, for general information, material newspapers or periodicals have published on current economic, political, social, or religious issues, or broadcast works of the same character, unless the author has specifically prohibited such reproduction, transfer to broadcast, or cable transmission.
Article 19(1)(4) further permits reproducing public political speeches, addresses, and lectures for an informatory purpose, with the author retaining the right to publish a collection of them. None of these provisions caps the length of a permitted extract beyond the fair-practice and purpose-justified test itself, and no reported Kyrgyz decision applies any of them to a systematic news aggregator rather than an individual quoting a published work.
Neighbouring rights under the Law (Arts. 34-47) protect performers, phonogram producers, and broadcasting or cable organizations, not a print or online news publisher's own reporting, so Kyrgyzstan has no publisher-side neighbouring right of the kind the European Union's Digital Single Market Directive Article 15 creates. The Law entered into effect on the date of its publication in the newspaper Erkin Too, 23 January 1998.
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Read the law
Law No. 6 of 14 January 1998 on Copyright and Related Rights
official English translation, WIPO Lex (record current to amendment by Law No. 62 of 17 March 2023)