Commons talk:Copyright rules by territory/Kiribati

New copyright law 2018

Posting here, as the thread I started at COM:VPC was just archived without discussion.

In the midst of the news that this south Pacific insular nation just welcomed the New Year 2021 (as of this writing), I did some browsing at COM:CRT/Kiribati, and thought the law that's being applied there is already outdated, the British-era 1917 Copyright Ordinance (Cap 16), revised and consolidated in 1998. So I did some search on WIPO Lex, and found out that they updated their copyright law in 2018. It is now the Copyright Act 2018.

I immediately glanced at the limitations/exceptions, hoping that they retained the British-style FOP provision. To my disappointment, they removed anything that is FOP in their exceptions (14. to 25.) and introduced fair use-type provisions like private study, educational purposes, reporting of current events, and the like. Sadly, Kiribati may fall to "red countries". JWilz12345 (Talk|Contrib's.) 15:25, 8 January 2021 (UTC)

• I took a shot at updating to reflect the 2018 act. I think it is not retroactive, so FOP may apply to photos taken before it came into effect. Aymatth2 (talk) 13:10, 9 January 2021 (UTC)