Law on Copyright and Related Rights, quotation and news-article reproduction exceptions
Law No. ZRU-42 (20 July 2006), Art. 26
A citation is an address, not a summary. The first part names the law; what follows narrows it to the exact section, article or paragraph.
In force since 21 July 2006.
A snippet reproduction rule binding public and private bodies.
As of 7 September 2026.
What this law does
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Article 26 permits, with the author's name and the source of borrowing indicated and provided it does not harm the normal use of the work or infringe the author's legitimate interests, quoting a published work in the original or in translation for scientific, research, polemical, critical or non-promotional information purposes to the extent justified by the purpose of quotation, including reproducing excerpts from newspaper and magazine articles in the form of press reviews.
The same article separately permits reproducing in newspapers, or communicating by broadcast or cable, articles already published in newspapers or magazines on current political, economic, social or religious issues, or broadcast works of the same nature, unless the author has specifically prohibited such use, so the exception is an author opt-out rather than an unconditional licence. Article 26 carries no headline-length or short-extract cap distinct from the purpose-justified test in its own text.
What it reaches
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statute
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Snippet reproduction
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