Law on Copyright and Related Rights, Free Use for Press and News Reporting
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A snippet reproduction rule binding public and private bodies.
As of 7 September 2026.
What this law does
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Article 7 lists reports of events and facts of an informational character among the categories not protected by copyright, alongside official documents, state symbols, and folklore, so news of the day as such is never a protected work under Turkmenistan's law.
Article 19(1) permits quotation in the original or in translation from lawfully published works for scientific, research, polemical, critical, and informational purposes, to the extent justified by the purpose of the quotation, and expressly includes reproducing excerpts from newspaper and magazine articles in the form of press reviews; the exception carries no headline-length or short-extract cap distinct from that purpose test.
Article 19(3) separately permits reproducing, in periodicals, or communicating by broadcast or cable, lawfully published newspaper and magazine articles on current economic, political, social, or religious topics, or broadcast works of a similar character, unless the author or other rightholder has specifically prohibited that reproduction or communication; this reservation right is the closest Turkmenistan's law comes to a publisher opt-out, and it attaches to the author or rightholder rather than to a press-industry body.
No primary source located states a day-precise commencement date for this Law beyond its own Art. 33's entry into force upon official publication.
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