Copyright and Related Rights Code, Press Review and News Exceptions
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Article 129(2)(c) of the Copyright and Related Rights Code (Law No. 14/2022) permits, without the author's consent, the regular selection of periodical press articles in the form of a press review. Article 129(2)(d) permits the fixation, reproduction and public communication of fragments of a literary or artistic work when their inclusion in a news report is justified by the informational purpose pursued.
Article 129(2)(k) permits the reproduction, communication to the public or making available to the public of an article of current affairs, of economic, political or religious discussion, of a broadcast work, or of other material of the same nature, unless the rights holder has expressly reserved it.
Article 130 requires that a reproduction or quotation under paragraph (d) not be so extensive as to impair interest in the quoted work, but articles 129(2)(c) and 129(2)(k) carry no extent cap of their own in the Code's text. No reported Timorese decision applies any of the three exceptions to a systematic news aggregator rather than an individual press review or news report.
The Code's neighbouring-rights title is confined to artists, phonogram and videogram producers, and broadcasting organisations, so it creates no press-publisher neighbouring right, and the Code contains no reference to a hyperlink or to framing.
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Copyright and Related Rights Code
Law No. 14/2022, English-language text hosted on the WTO's Timor-Leste accession legislation page (wto.org)