Selected year snapshot
For 2014, the active event in this file is Loi n° 1/87 du 29 juillet 1987 instituant la protection du droit d'auteur et des droits voisins.
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Current rationale
As of 2025, Gabon's primary copyright statute remains Law No. 1/87 of 29 July 1987. No replacement copyright act was identified via web search. Decree No. 000452/PR/MCAEP of 23 May 2006 establishes regulations on the management of copyright and neighboring rights but is an implementing decree for collective management, not a substantive amendment to the exceptions and limitations regime. Law No. 2/94 on the Protection of Cultural Property and Law No. 07/2001 (Code on Audiovisual, Cinematographic and Written Communication) address related but distinct subject matter (cultural heritage and media regulation respectively) and do not appear to amend the copyright exceptions regime. Law No. 009/2010 completes provisions of the Civil Code and is not a copyright amendment. Without access to the full verbatim text of the 1987 law's exceptions provisions, I cannot determine the color classification. The status remains AMBIGUOUS. No TDM-specific exception was identified. Gabon is a member of OAPI (Organisation Africaine de la Propriété Intellectuelle), and the Bangui Agreement (revised 1999, entered into force 2002) provides a regional IP framework. Annex VII of the Bangui Agreement addresses copyright and may contain exceptions relevant to research, but the national law (Law 1/87) remains the primary domestic statute and its text could not be fully verified.
Exceptions considered
Exceptions and limitations chapter of the 1987 copyright law; specific content unverified. Based on OAPI-region patterns and the Bangui Agreement framework, likely includes: private reproduction for personal use, quotation rights, and possibly reproduction for teaching purposes. Whether full-work reproduction for research is permitted, and whether sharing is authorized, cannot be determined without the text.
Law changes
Loi n° 1/87 du 29 juillet 1987 instituant la protection du droit d'auteur et des droits voisins
Baseline · Effective 1987-07-29
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Relevant section: Articles 27-35
Dates: Effective 1987-07-29 · Enacted 1987-07-29
Why this score
Gabon's copyright law in force on 1990-01-01 was Law No. 1/87 of 29 July 1987 instituting protection of copyright and neighboring rights. The WIPO Lex record confirms this law exists, but I was unable to retrieve the full statutory text of the exceptions and limitations provisions (Articles 27-35 reportedly contain the limitations). Without access to the verbatim text of the exceptions, I cannot determine whether the law permits full-work reproduction for research, whether it is limited to excerpts/quotations, whether sharing is permitted, or whether the beneficiary class is restricted. The classification is therefore genuinely AMBIGUOUS due to inability to verify the statutory text itself, not merely due to search difficulty. The law is in French, which is Gabon's official legislative language.
Exceptions considered
Exceptions and limitations chapter of the 1987 copyright law; specific content unverified. Likely includes private use, quotation, and possibly educational/research exceptions based on OAPI-region patterns.
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Loi n° 1/87 du 29 juillet 1987 instituant la protection du droit d'auteur et des droits voisins
Current law confirmation · Effective 1987-07-29
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Relevant section: Articles 27-35
Dates: Effective 1987-07-29 · Enacted 1987-07-29
Why this score
As of 2025, Gabon's primary copyright statute remains Law No. 1/87 of 29 July 1987. No replacement copyright act was identified via web search. Decree No. 000452/PR/MCAEP of 23 May 2006 establishes regulations on the management of copyright and neighboring rights but is an implementing decree for collective management, not a substantive amendment to the exceptions and limitations regime. Law No. 2/94 on the Protection of Cultural Property and Law No. 07/2001 (Code on Audiovisual, Cinematographic and Written Communication) address related but distinct subject matter (cultural heritage and media regulation respectively) and do not appear to amend the copyright exceptions regime. Law No. 009/2010 completes provisions of the Civil Code and is not a copyright amendment. Without access to the full verbatim text of the 1987 law's exceptions provisions, I cannot determine the color classification. The status remains AMBIGUOUS. No TDM-specific exception was identified. Gabon is a member of OAPI (Organisation Africaine de la Propriété Intellectuelle), and the Bangui Agreement (revised 1999, entered into force 2002) provides a regional IP framework. Annex VII of the Bangui Agreement addresses copyright and may contain exceptions relevant to research, but the national law (Law 1/87) remains the primary domestic statute and its text could not be fully verified.
Exceptions considered
Exceptions and limitations chapter of the 1987 copyright law; specific content unverified. Based on OAPI-region patterns and the Bangui Agreement framework, likely includes: private reproduction for personal use, quotation rights, and possibly reproduction for teaching purposes. Whether full-work reproduction for research is permitted, and whether sharing is authorized, cannot be determined without the text.