Legea nr. 8/1996 privind dreptul de autor și drepturile conexe, art. 94^1, Press Publisher Neighbouring Right, inserted by Legea nr. 69/2022

Legea nr. 69/2022, adopted 28 March 2022 and published in Monitorul Oficial nr. 321 din 1 aprilie 2022, inserted this right.

A press publisher established under Romanian law holds the exclusive patrimonial right to authorize or prohibit an information-society service provider's online use of its press publications, through reproduction (direct or indirect, temporary or permanent, in whole or in part) and through making them available to the public so that they can be accessed individually at a place and time chosen by the public, per art. 94^1(1).

The right does not apply to private or non-commercial use by individual users, to hyperlinks or reporting of simple facts, or to the use of individual words or extracts of up to 120 characters that does not undermine the right's effectiveness or substitute for the publication, per art. 94^1(2).

It does not override the rights of authors or other rights holders whose works are incorporated into a press publication, per art. 94^1(3), and it expires two years after 1 January of the year following the publication's own publication date, per art. 94^1(5).

An author whose work is incorporated in a press publication is entitled to a proportionate share of the publisher's revenue from this right, per art. 94^1(6), and where an author has transferred a right or granted a licence to a press publisher, that transfer or licence itself entitles the publisher to a share of the compensation for a use of the work made under a copyright exception, per art. 94^2.