Law on Media, Duty to Cite Source on Republication
Law on Media (Legislative Decree No. 108 of 2011), Art. 96
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What this law does
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Article 96 punishes, with a fine of twenty thousand to one hundred thousand Syrian pounds, whoever transmits or publishes any media content without citing the source it was taken from, without prejudice to the injured party's right to seek compensation.
The Law defines media content broadly, as the body of information of interest to a recipient in the form of articles, news, investigations, programs, notes, comments, or similar material, and defines a media outlet to include an electronic media outlet and, specifically, a network communication outlet whose published media content is accessible to any individual over the network.
Article 96 is not conditioned on the reproduced content being protected by copyright and applies regardless of whether the source has reserved its rights, so it functions as a general attribution mandate on republication rather than a press-publisher neighbouring right of the kind the European Union's Digital Single Market Directive Article 15 creates, and it carries no separate exclusive right, term, or licensing mechanism.
No provision read in this Law addresses hyperlinking, framing, or inline display, and no reported Syrian decision applies Article 96 to a systematic news aggregator.
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Arabic-language text of the Law on Media, Legislative Decree No. 108 of 2011, hosted by WIPO Lex