Ley N° 9.739 art. 45, numeral 3, news and press-reproduction exception
Ley N° 9.739, de 17 de diciembre de 1937, art. 45, numeral 3
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In force.
A snippet reproduction rule binding public and private bodies.
As of 5 September 2026.
What this law does
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Article 45 lists cases that are not illicit reproduction. Numeral 3 excepts news, reports, journalistic information, or recordings of general interest from the consent that article 44 otherwise requires, on the sole conditions that the exact version is preserved and the source is stated.
The exception is not capped at a headline or short-extract length and is not confined to the press industry, but the requirement to keep the exact version suits reproducing a news item whole, the way a press clipping does, rather than obviously covering an aggregator's extraction of a headline or a short snippet distinct from the source's own wording. No reported Uruguayan decision has applied numeral 3 to a systematic news aggregator as opposed to a traditional press review or broadcaster.
Separately, article 5 confines copyright to expressions and excludes ideas, procedures, operating methods, and mathematical concepts as such, so a bare fact or the news of the day is never itself a protected work under Uruguayan law. Uruguay has no separate press-publisher neighbouring right, no compelled platform-to-publisher bargaining regime, no recognized hot-news or misappropriation doctrine distinct from ordinary copyright law, and no located case law on hyperlinking or framed display.
What it reaches
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statute
Categories
Snippet reproduction
When LexLint raises it
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