Liberia Intellectual Property Act, 2016, news, quotation, and press-reproduction exceptions (§§ 9.4, 9.9, 9.14)
A citation is an address, not a summary. The first part names the law; what follows narrows it to the exact section, article or paragraph.
In force since 14 June 2016.
A snippet reproduction rule binding public and private bodies.
As of 5 September 2026.
What this law does
Drafted with AI from the cited sources under the direction of UnGovr staff. UnGovr holds editorial responsibility for this page.
Liberia's Intellectual Property Act of 2016 excludes the news of the day and miscellaneous facts having the character of mere items of press information from copyright protection outright, alongside official legislative, judicial, and administrative texts.
Once a work has been lawfully published, the Act permits a quotation from it, including a quotation from a newspaper article or periodical in the form of a press summary, provided the quotation is compatible with fair practice, does not exceed the extent justified by its purpose, and is accompanied by an indication of source and author.
The Act separately permits a newspaper or periodical to reproduce, broadcast, or otherwise communicate to the public a current-issues article published in another newspaper or periodical, unless the original publisher has expressly reserved that right. It also permits reproducing short excerpts of a work seen or heard in the course of a current event for the purpose of reporting that event.
Liberia has no separate press-publisher neighbouring right, no compelled platform-to-publisher bargaining regime, no recognized hot-news or misappropriation doctrine distinct from ordinary copyright law, and no case law on hyperlinking or framed display.
What it reaches
Instrument type
statute
Categories
Snippet reproduction
When LexLint raises it
aggregates_content