Ordonnance n° 2010-95, exclusion des faits et exception de citation
Ordonnance n° 2010-95 exclusion des faits et des nouvelles du jour et exception de citation, du 23 décembre 2010, portant sur le droit d'auteur, art. 7 et art. 11
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.
A snippet reproduction rule binding public and private bodies.
As of 5 September 2026.
What this law does
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Article 7 excludes from copyright protection official legislative, administrative or judicial texts and their official translations, the news of the day, ideas, procedures, systems, operating methods, concepts, principles, discoveries or simple data even when stated, described, explained, illustrated or embodied in a work, and simple facts and data.
Article 2.3 defines a database as a compilation of data or facts, which article 5 protects only as a collection (recueil), like an encyclopaedia, to the extent its selection or arrangement is an original creation, and article 10 withholds the free-reproduction privilege from the whole or a substantial part of a database, so a database is protected, if at all, as an ordinary compilation rather than under a separate sui generis right.
Article 11 permits quoting a lawfully published work in another work, without the author's authorisation and without payment, on condition that the source and the author's name are indicated and the quotation conforms to fair practice and does not exceed the extent justified by its purpose; unlike a dedicated press-review clause, this quotation exception carries no separate allowance for reproducing a current political, social or economic news article in full.
Article 107 repeals Ordonnance n° 93-027 du 30 mars 1993, which stated an identical objects-not-protected exclusion and an identical quotation exception in its own articles 6 and 10.
What it reaches
Instrument type
statute
Categories
Snippet reproduction
When LexLint raises it
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