Law No. 9 of 1968, protected works and collections
Law No. 9 of 1968 Issuing the Copyright Protection Law, arts. 2, 4
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In force since 30 March 1968.
A copyright and text and data mining (TDM) rule binding public and private bodies.
As of 5 September 2026.
What it requires
- Do not reproduce, translate, or republish a protected literary, artistic, or scientific work without the author's written or electronic permission; Libya has no separate database right, so an unoriginal collection or compilation is protected only to the extent its individual contents are.
If you get it wrong
Criminal exposureYes
Criminal exposure note
Infringing the rights protected by articles 5, 6, 7, and 9 is punishable under article 48 by a fine of twenty to five hundred Libyan pounds, a pre-1971 currency unit the law has never been amended to redenominate; selling, importing, or exporting a counterfeit work carries the same fine.
Who enforces it
Enforcement body
Ministry of Information & Culture; Court of First Instance
What it reaches
Obligation class
Access restriction
What this law does
Drafted with AI from the cited sources under the direction of UnGovr staff. UnGovr holds editorial responsibility for this page.
Article 2 of Law No. 9 of 1968 lists the categories of work an author is protected in, covering written, artistic, dramatic, musical, photographic, and similar works, but article 4 excludes a collection comprising various works, such as an anthology, from protection as such, without affecting the copyright each contained work carries on its own; Libya has no separate sui generis database or compilation right.
Article 4 also excludes a collection of official documents, such as statutes, decrees, and judgments, from protection unless it is itself characterized by innovation or an original arrangement. The law predates networked computing and states no text-and-data-mining exception and no machine-readable reservation mechanism.
When LexLint raises it
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Read the law
Official English translation of Law No. 9 of 1968
reproduced with permission of Abu-Ghazaleh Intellectual Property (AGIP) in Libya, WIPO Lex