Commons:Unprotected works/Africa
This page gives overviews of rules for unprotected works in different countries or territories of Africa. These are works that by their nature do not qualify for copyright protection. The rules are "transcluded" from individual page sections giving the rules for each territory.
Countries of Africa[edit]
COM:NOP Algeria
Algeria
- Protection shall not include ideas, concepts, principles, approaches, techniques, working procedures and patterns associated with intellectual work creation themselves, except to the extent they are enlisted, structured or arranged in the protected work, and in the format expression independent of their description, interpretation or clarification.[Law of 2003, Art.7]
- State works, legally made available for public use in non-profit generating purposes, may be freely used subject to maintaining the work wellbeing and highlighting its source. State works, within the context of this article, shall mean works produced and published by various state institutions, local groups and public establishments of administrative nature.[Law of 2003, Art.9]
- Approved protection of copyrights provided for herein shall not be granted to administrative laws, regulations, resolutions and administrative contracts issued by the state institutions, local groups, justice rulings and the official translation of these texts.[Law of 2003, Art.11]
COM:NOP Angola
Angola
No information available
COM:NOP Benin
Benin
Works that are not protected are.[2006 Art.9]:
- Official texts of a legislative, administrative or judicial nature or to the official translations thereof;
- The news of the day;
- Ideas, processes, systems, methods of operation, concepts, principles, discoveries or simple data, even if they are set out, described, explained, illustrated or incorporated in a work
COM:NOP Botswana
Botswana
Under Act 6 of 2006, no protection shall extend to (a) any idea, procedure, system, method of operation, concept, principle, discovery or mere data, even if expressed, described, explained, illustrated or embodied in a work; (b) any official text of a legislative, administrative or legal nature, as well as any official translation thereof; (c) a broadcast which infringes, or to the extent that it infringes, the copyright in another broadcast or in a cable programme; or (d) a sound recording or film which is, or to the extent that it is, a copy of a previous sound recording or film.[2006 Section 6.2]
COM:NOP Burkina Faso
Burkina Faso
No information available
COM:NOP Burundi
Burundi
Copyright protection shall not apply to: (a) acts, legal decisions and decisions of administrative bodies and the official translations of such texts, or daily news published, broadcast or communicated in public; (b) ideas, procedures, systems, methods of operation, concepts, principles, discoveries or mere data, even if expressed, described, explained, illustrated or embodied in a work.[Act 1/021 2005 Article 7]
COM:NOP Cameroon
Cameroon
No information available
COM:NOP Cape Verde
Cape Verde
The following are not protected: (a) news of the day and reports of different events given simply for information, however disclosed: (b) laws and rulings of judicial and administrative bodies, as well as petitions, allegations, complaints and other texts submitted to public authorities or services; (c) political speeches, except when assembled in a volume by their authors; (d) simple facts and data; (e) ideas, processes, systems, operational methods, concerts, principles or discoveries, in themselves and as such.[2009 Article.10]
COM:NOP Central African Republic
Central African Republic
Article 10 of the 1985 law states that protection does not apply to laws, judicial or administrative decisions or official translations of these texts, or to news of the day published, broadcast by radio or television, or communicated in public.[85.002 Article 10]
COM:NOP Chad
Chad
No information available
COM:NOP Comoros
Comoros
No information available
COM:NOP Democratic Republic of the Congo
Democratic Republic of the Congo
No information available
COM:NOP Republic of the Congo
Republic of the Congo
No information available
COM:NOP Djibouti
Djibouti
No information available
COM:NOP Egypt
Egypt
No information available
COM:NOP Equatorial Guinea
Equatorial Guinea
No information available
COM:NOP Eritrea
Eritrea
No information available
COM:NOP Eswatini
Eswatini
No information available
COM:NOP Ethiopia
Ethiopia
No information available
COM:NOP Gabon
Gabon
Under Law No. 1/87 of 1987, Protection shall not apply: to laws and regulations and officially published preparatory work therefor, decisions of the courts and of administrative bodies and official translations of such texts;the news of the day published, diffused or communicated to the public.[1/1987 Article 11]
COM:NOP Gambia
The Gambia
No information available
COM:NOP Ghana
Ghana
No information available
COM:NOP Guinea
Guinea
No information available
COM:NOP Guinea-Bissau
Guinea-Bissau
No information available
COM:NOP Côte d'Ivoire
Ivory Coast
Protection does not extend to ideas, methods, procedures, concepts or information; official texts of a legislative, administrative or judicial nature, nor to their official translations; simple data and facts.[2016-555 Article 10]
COM:NOP Kenya
Kenya
No information available
COM:NOP Lesotho
Lesotho
No information available
COM:NOP Liberia
Liberia
No information available
COM:NOP Libya
Libya
According to Libyan Law No. 9 for 1968, the following works are not subject to copyright, if they are not characterized by innovation, arrangement or any other personal effort worthy of protection[9/1968 Article 4]:
- A collection made up of various works such as verse, prose and music anthologies and other collections. However, each individual work making up the collection is copyrighted.
- A collection of work that has become public property.
- A collection of official documents such as texts of laws, decrees, regulations, international agreements, legal judgements and various official documents.
- Official documents such as texts of laws, decrees, regulations, international agreements, legal judgements and various official documents.
COM:NOP Madagascar
Madagascar
No information available
COM:NOP Malawi
Malawi
No information available
COM:NOP Mali
Mali
No information available
COM:NOP Mauritania
Mauritania
No information available
COM:NOP Mauritius
Mauritius
No information available
COM:NOP Morocco
Morocco
Works that fit the following criteria are not protected under Moroccan copyright law:
- (a) official texts of a legislative, administrative or judicial nature, nor to their official translations;
- (b) current events;
- (c) ideas, processes, systems, operating methods, concepts, principles, discoveries or simple data, even if these are stated, described, explained, illustrated or incorporated in a work."[1-00-20 Art.8]
COM:NOP Mozambique
Mozambique
No information available
COM:NOP Namibia
Namibia
According to the 1994 law, no copyright subsists in:
- the official text of any work of a legislative, administrative or legal nature, or an official translation
- a speech of a political nature or a speech delivered in the course of judicial proceedings
- publications or broadcasts of news of the day
However, the author of political speeches shall have the exclusive right of making or publishing a collection thereof.[6/1994 Section 15(8)]
COM:NOP Niger
Niger
No information available
COM:NOP Nigeria
Nigeria
No information available
COM:NOP Rwanda
Rwanda
No information available
COM:NOP São Tomé and Príncipe
São Tomé and Príncipe
Under the Decree Law 02/2017, copyright protection does not apply to the following:[02/2017 Art.7]
- News of the day and the reports of events that are simple information, however disclosed;
- Applications, claims, complaints and written or oral submissions to authorities or public services
- Proposed texts and speeches before assemblies or other collegial, political and administrative bodies at the national, regional or local level, or in public debates on issues of public interest;
- Political speeches.
COM:NOP Senegal
Senegal
No information available
COM:NOP Seychelles
Seychelles
No information available
COM:NOP Sierra Leone
Sierra Leone
No information available
COM:NOP Somalia
Somalia
No information available
COM:NOP South Africa
South Africa
No information available
COM:NOP South Sudan
South Sudan
No information available
COM:NOP Sudan
Sudan
No information available
COM:NOP Tanzania
Tanzania
No information available
COM:NOP Togo
Togo
No information available
COM:NOP Tunisia
Tunisia
No information available
COM:NOP Uganda
Uganda
Ideas, concepts, procedures, methods or other things of a similar nature shall not be protected by copyright under this Act.[2006 Section 6]
There is no copyright in the following works:[2006 Section 7]
- enactments, including Acts, statutes, decrees, statutory instruments and other laws made by the Legislature or other authorised bodies;
- decrees, orders and other decisions by courts of law for the administration of justice and any official translations from them;
- reports made by committees or commissions of inquiry appointed by the Government or any agency of the Government;
- news of the day, namely, reports of fresh events or current information by the media whether published in a written form, broadcast, internet or communicated to the public by any other means.
COM:NOP Zambia
Zambia
No information available
COM:NOP Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe
No information available
Limited recognition[edit]
COM:NOP Ambazonia
Ambazonia
No information available
COM:NOP Azawad
Azawad
No information available
COM:NOP Puntland
Puntland
No information available
COM:NOP Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic
Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic
No information available
COM:NOP Somaliland
Somaliland
No information available
Other areas[edit]
COM:NOP Bir Tawil
Bir Tawil
No information available
COM:NOP Canary Islands
Canary Islands
No information available
COM:NOP Ceuta
Ceuta
Further information: Commons:Copyright rules by territory/Spain#NOP
COM:NOP Madeira
Madeira
No information available
COM:NOP Mayotte
Mayotte
No information available
COM:NOP Melilla
Melilla
No information available
COM:NOP Réunion
Réunion
No information available
COM:NOP Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha
Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha
No information available
COM:NOP Scattered Islands in the Indian Ocean
Scattered Islands in the Indian Ocean
No information available
COM:NOP Western Sahara
Western Sahara
No information available
partly located in Africa[edit]
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