Copyright Law, citation and quotation exceptions
Law on Copyright and Related Rights (2003), Arts. 25, 28
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Article 28 permits citing a legitimately published work in another work without the author's authorization and without payment of any remuneration, conditioned on indicating the source and the author's name where given and on the citation not exceeding "the necessary purpose".
Article 25 separately withdraws the author's power to prohibit short quotations justified by a critical, polemical, pedagogical, scientific, or informative purpose, and the broadcasting of press commentary, wherever the author's name and the work's source are clearly indicated.
Neither provision is scoped to a particular medium or reproducer, so a news aggregator reproducing a headline or short extract with attribution falls within the same general ground available to any other quoter; neither provision creates a dedicated press-publisher right, a machine-readable opt-out, or a rule specific to automated indexing.
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Official English translation of the Law on Copyright and Related Rights (2003), WIPO Lex