Ustawa o prawie autorskim, Press Review, Quotation, and Reporting Exceptions
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In force since 23 May 1994.
A snippet reproduction rule binding private bodies.
As of 6 September 2026.
What this law does
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Article 25 lets the press, radio, and television redistribute, for informational purposes, already-disseminated reports on current events, articles on current political, economic, or religious topics unless expressly reserved against further distribution, current statements and reporters' photographs, short extracts of the reports and articles just named, reviews of disseminated publications and works, and short summaries of disseminated works.
The author is entitled to remuneration for the reproduced articles and reporters' photographs, and the same rules apply to making a work available online in a way that lets anyone access it at a place and time of their own choosing.
Article 29 permits quoting excerpts of disseminated works, and reproducing a disseminated visual, photographic, or other short work in its entirety, within works that form an independent whole, to the extent justified by the purposes of explanation, polemic, critical or scientific analysis, teaching, or the rights of the genre of creativity.
What it reaches
Instrument type
statute
Categories
Snippet reproduction
When LexLint raises it
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Read the law
Dziennik Ustaw
consolidated text of the Act on Copyright and Related Rights, published as the Marshal of the Sejm's announcement of the unified text