Loi n° 2017-012, exception de citation et de revue de presse et exclusion des nouvelles du jour
Loi n° 2017-012 du 1er juin 2017 fixant le régime de la propriété littéraire et artistique art. 27 (citations et revues de presse) et arts. 9-10 (bases de données et exclusion des nouvelles du jour)
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 23 June 2017.
A snippet reproduction rule binding public and private bodies.
As of 5 September 2026.
What this law does
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Article 10 excludes official legislative, administrative, or judicial texts and their official translations, the news of the day, and mere facts and data from copyright protection outright: a bare fact, or the news of the day as such, is never a protected work under Malian law, whichever outlet reports it first.
Article 27(a) separately authorizes, once a work has already been lawfully made accessible to the public, analyses and short quotations conforming to fair practice and justified by a scientific, critical, educational, or informational purpose, including citations and borrowings of periodical-press articles in the form of press reviews, provided the borrowing is used in its original or translated form and is accompanied by the source and the author's name.
Because the press-review borrowing is introduced by 'y compris' (including) inside the same sentence as the general 'courtes citations' (short quotations) rule, it does not on its own text extend to a full or near-full reproduction of a news article the way a broader press-review carve-out would.
Article 9(b) separately protects a compilation such as a database as a copyright work where the selection, coordination, or arrangement of its contents constitutes an intellectual creation, without creating a distinct sui generis database right.
What it reaches
Instrument type
statute
Categories
Snippet reproduction
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