Yemen

Yemen has no press-publisher neighbouring right, no compelled platform-to-publisher bargaining code, no recognized hot-news misappropriation doctrine distinct from ordinary copyright law, and no located statute or case law addressing hyperlinking or framing liability.

The operative instrument is Law No. 15 of 2012 on the Protection of Copyright and Related Rights: article 5(3) excludes the news of incidents or events that is merely media descriptive material from copyright protection outright, so a bare news item or fact is never a protected work regardless of who first reported it.

Article 40(3) lets any person quote items or excerpts from another work for clarification, explanation, or critique with attribution, and states expressly that the exception reaches items taken from articles and journalist periodicals, and article 41(A) separately lets any person copy or republish a newspaper article, or an article in an economic, political, or religious periodical, with attribution, unless the right to copy or transfer it to the public has been explicitly reserved by the author or right holder, an opt-out condition rather than a blanket permission.

Neither provision is capped at headline length or a short extract, and whether either reaches a systematic news aggregator, as opposed to a traditional press review, has not been tested in a reported Yemeni decision. The Law predates the concept of a machine-readable text-and-data-mining reservation entirely, so no opt-out mechanism of that kind exists.