Law on Copyright and Related Rights, News and Press-Article Free-Use Exceptions

Art. 7(3), read in the Law's list of works that are not objects of copyright, excludes 'reports of events and facts having an informational character' (news of the day) from protection altogether, so a bare factual news item carries no copyright to begin with.

Art. 20(1) permits, without the author's consent or payment but with the author's name and source stated, quotation in the original or in translation for scientific, research, polemical, critical, or informational purposes from lawfully published works to an extent justified by the purpose of the quotation, expressly including reproduction of excerpts from newspaper and magazine articles in the form of press reviews; Art. 20(3) separately permits reproducing in the press, broadcasting, or cable-communicating to the public lawfully published newspaper or magazine articles on current economic, political, or religious topics, or broadcast works of the same character, unless the author has specifically prohibited such reproduction; Art. 20(5) permits reproducing or communicating, in reviews of current events by photography, broadcast, or cable, works that become seen or heard in the course of those events, to the extent justified by the informational purpose.

Neither the neighbouring-rights provisions (Section III, Arts. 30 and following, covering performers, phonogram producers, and broadcasting or cable organizations only) nor any other part of the Law creates a press-publisher neighbouring right, a compelled bargaining regime, or a machine-readable text-and-data-mining reservation, and no reported Tajik decision was found applying Art. 20 to a systematic news aggregator rather than an individual quoting a published work.