Estonia has implemented the Temporary acts of reproduction (Art. 5.1 InfoSoc) exception in §18' of the Copyright Act. The national exception closely resembles the EU exception.

Implementation summary:

This exception allows for temporary or casual reproduction of the work which occurs as an integral and essential part of a technical process and the purpose of which is to mediate the communication of the work in the network between third parties or to make possible the lawful use of the work or an object of related rights and which has no independent commercial purpose.

Implementation details:

Beneficiaries:

• intermediaries (transmission between third parties in a network)
• any user (authorized use)

Purposes:

• mediate the communication of the work in a network between third parties
• make lawful use possible

Usage:

• temporary or casual reproduction

Subject Matter:

• works
• performances
• phonograms
• film fixations
• broadcasts
• press publications

Compensation:

• no compensation required

Attribution:

• no attribution required

Other Conditions:

• temporary acts of reproduction must be transient or incidental
• temporary acts of reproduction must constitute an integral and essential part of a technical process
• temporary acts of reproduction must not have independent commercial purpose

Introduced/last updated: 30 June 2006

Remarks: The provision concerns copyrighted works. The exception is extended to related rights with a general reference to "other cases where the rights of authors of works are limited pursuant to Chapter IV of this Act" in § 75 (6).