Civil Code Part IV Article 1274, Free Use of a Work for Informational, Scientific, Educational or Cultural Purposes
Civil Code of the Russian Federation, Part IV, Art. 1274
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In force.
A snippet reproduction rule binding public and private bodies.
As of 6 September 2026.
What this law does
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Article 1274 permits, without the rightholder's consent and without payment but with mandatory attribution of the author and the source, quotation of lawfully published works in the original or in translation for scientific, polemical, critical, informational, or educational purposes, or to reveal the author's creative intent, to the extent justified by the purpose of the quotation, including reproducing excerpts of newspaper and magazine articles in the form of press reviews.
It separately permits reproducing in a periodical print publication, and communicating to the public, lawfully published articles on current economic, political, social, or religious topics broadcast or communicated to the public, unless the author or rightholder has specifically prohibited such use, and permits reproduction and communication, within the bounds justified by an informational purpose, of works seen or heard in the course of covering current events, in reviews of current events.
The article names no exception at all for automated text-and-data-mining or bulk machine reproduction of protected works; its enumerated free uses are limited to quotation, illustration for educational material, periodical press reproduction of specified subject-matter, parody, and accessibility formats for the visually impaired, so mass scraping of copyrighted content for indexing, aggregation beyond quotation-length excerpts, or model training draws on none of them and falls back to the ordinary reproduction right.
What it reaches
Instrument type
statute
Categories
Snippet reproduction, TDM opt-out
When LexLint raises it
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