Copyright and Related Rights Law, Exclusion of News and Facts from Protection
Lei n.º 9/2022, de 29 de Junho (Direitos do Autor e Direitos Conexos), art. 7
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As of 7 September 2026.
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Article 7(1) excludes from copyright protection: official texts of a legislative, administrative, or judicial nature and their official translations; news of the day and reports of events of a merely informational character; mere facts and data; political speeches, unless collected in a volume by their authors; ideas, processes, operational methods, or mathematical concepts, principles, or discoveries; and titles that are a generic, necessary, or usual designation of the theme or object of a work of a given genre, or that consist exclusively of the names of historical or mythological characters or of living public figures.
Article 7(2) allows the official texts named in Article 7(1)(a) to incorporate protected works without the rightholder's prior consent and without any compensation for the incorporation. The Law repeals the prior copyright statute, Lei n.º 4/2001, de 27 de Fevereiro.
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Text of Lei n.º 9/2022
de 29 de Junho (Lei dos Direitos do Autor e Direitos Conexos), Boletim da República I Série n.º 124, reproduced on its WIPO Lex legislation record