Slovakia has implemented the Press review (Art. 5.3(c) 1st part InfoSoc) exception in Section 39(1) of the Copyright Act. The national exception closely resembles the EU exception.

Implementation summary:

This exception allows for the use of a literary work in a form of an article or a broadcasted work concerning current economic, political or religious topics by making a copy or communication to the public through mass media, unless such use is expressly reserved.

Implementation details:

Beneficiaries:

• any user

Purposes:

• not specified (informatory purpose)

Usage:

• reproduction
• communication to the public (through mass media)

Subject Matter:

• literary work in a form of articles (on daily events and on current economic or political topics)
• broadcasted works (on these subjects)
• performances
• phonograms
• film fixations
• broadcasts

Compensation:

• no compensation required

Attribution:

• attribution required

Other Conditions:

• use must not be expressly reserved by the rightsholder
• works used must concern current economic, political or religious topics
• communication to the public must be exercised through mass media

Introduced/last updated: 01 July 2015

Remarks: The exception applies to performers' (§ 103), phonogram producers' (§113), audiovisual producers' (§121) and broadcasters' (§127.1) rights.

Pursuant to §35(1) of the Copyright Act, the name of the author or his pseudonym, if it is not an anonymous work, as well as the work title and source, must be stated in all cases under §37 and § 39.

There is no definition of 'mass media'. The Slovak Constitutional Court proclaimed in 2015 that the social network Facebook should not be considered 'mass media', however this finding was made in a copmletely diferent context, namely - political advertising in a pre-election period. (see Olsovsky, S. and Jost, J. (2019) Slovak Republic. In: Lindner, B. and Shapiro T. (eds.) Copyright in the Information Society, p. 832.)