Law No. 75/1999 on the Protection of Literary and Artistic Property, Current-Events Reporting Exception
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Article 30 permits the media, without the author's authorization and without obligation to pay compensation, to use short excerpts of works that are displayed or heard during current events in the course of reporting those events, provided the name of the author and the source are mentioned.
A separate exception at article 26 permits copying or reproducing articles published in newspapers and magazines, or short excerpts of a work, without authorization or compensation, solely for educational purposes and within the necessary limits of that purpose, with the author's and publisher's names credited on each use.
Neither exception carries a headline-length or short-extract cap distinct from its own purpose-bound test, and no reported Lebanese decision applies either to a systematic news aggregator rather than a broadcaster reporting an event or an educator excerpting a published work. The statute took effect two months after its publication in the Official Gazette, but no commencement date distinct from its 1999 enactment date has been located.
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