Commons:Unprotected works/Africa

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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

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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]}

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COM:NOP Angola

Angola

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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

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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]}

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COM:NOP Burkina Faso

Burkina Faso

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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]}

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COM:NOP Cameroon

Cameroon

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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]}

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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]}

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COM:NOP Chad

Chad

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COM:NOP Comoros

Comoros

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COM:NOP Democratic Republic of the Congo

Democratic Republic of the Congo

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COM:NOP Republic of the Congo

Republic of the Congo

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COM:NOP Djibouti

Djibouti

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COM:NOP Egypt

Egypt

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COM:NOP Equatorial Guinea

Equatorial Guinea

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COM:NOP Eritrea

Eritrea

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COM:NOP Eswatini

Eswatini

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COM:NOP Ethiopia

Ethiopia

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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]}

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COM:NOP Gambia

The Gambia

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COM:NOP Ghana

Ghana

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COM:NOP Guinea

Guinea

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COM:NOP Guinea-Bissau

Guinea-Bissau

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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]}

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COM:NOP Kenya

Kenya

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COM:NOP Lesotho

Lesotho

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COM:NOP Liberia

Liberia

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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.

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COM:NOP Madagascar

Madagascar

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COM:NOP Malawi

Malawi

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COM:NOP Mali

Mali

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COM:NOP Mauritania

Mauritania

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COM:NOP Mauritius

Mauritius

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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]}

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COM:NOP Mozambique

Mozambique

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COM:NOP Namibia

Namibia

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)]}

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COM:NOP Niger

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.

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COM:NOP Senegal

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.

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COM:NOP Zambia

Zambia

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COM:NOP Zimbabwe

Zimbabwe

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Limited recognition

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COM:NOP Ambazonia

Other areas

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COM:NOP Bir Tawil

partly located in Africa

Not protected
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Commons:Unprotected works/Africa

Countries of Africa

Limited recognition

Other areas

partly located in Africa

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