Copyright Law, quotation and journalistic-summary exception
Royal Decree No. M/41 Art. 15(2) quotation and journalistic-summary exception (2 Rajab 1424H, 30 August 2003), amended by Council of Ministers Decision No. 536 (19 Shawwal 1439H, 3 July 2018)
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 6 September 2026.
What this law does
Drafted with AI from the cited sources under the direction of UnGovr staff. UnGovr holds editorial responsibility for this page.
Article 15(2) permits quoting passages from a copyrighted work, in its original language or in translation, in another work without the copyright owner's permission, and states this also applies to journalistic summaries abstracted from newspapers and periodicals, provided the quotation is consistent with established conventions and within the limits justified by its purpose, and that the source and the author's name are mentioned.
Related rights for performers, producers of audio recordings, and broadcasting organizations exist elsewhere in the Law (Arts. 9, 18-19), but none of the provisions located create a press-publisher neighbouring right or a compelled platform-to-publisher bargaining regime reaching a news aggregator. No text-and-data-mining opt-out mechanism and no reported case on hyperlinking, framing, or hot-news misappropriation was located.
When LexLint raises it
aggregates_content