Burkina Faso has a copyright regime under the Law No. 048-2019/AN. The exceptions do not follow the fair use or fair dealing model, therefore limiting the lawful use of copyrighted work by others. Arts. 22-29 list the exceptions, which include: reproduction for scientific research purposes; reproduction as part of teaching activities; reporting current events; among others.
In addition, the Revised Bangui Agreement, which is a regional intellectual property law that is not only a regional convention applicable in all member states but also serves as a national intellectual property law in Burkina Faso and each of the other member states, contains provisions on copyright in Annex VII: Chapter IV (Limitations to Economic Rights) and establishes a regime of copyright exceptions. Nevertheless, these exceptions similarly do not conform to the fair use or fair dealing models.

Burkina Faso has ratified the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Copyright Treaty.

Burkina Faso has ratified the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Performances and Phonograms Treaty.

Burkina Faso does not have a comprehensive framework in place that provides effective protection of trade secrets, but there are limited measures addressing some issues related to them. In particular, the country has established provisions addressing disclosure, acquisition or use of confidential information in the course of industrial or commercial activities by third parties in Art. 6 of Annex VIII of the Bangui Agreement, which has been ratified by 17 French-speaking States, including Burkina Faso in 2002.

Arts. 5.k, 74.f, 144 and 145 of the Law No. 061-2008/AN impose an obligation for passive infrastructure sharing to deliver telecom services to end users. Moreover, passive infrastructure sharing is practised in the mobile and fixed sectors based on commercial agreements.

The government owns 28.6% of the shares of Moov Africa Burkina.

Arts. 72 and 81 of Law No. 061-2008/AN stipulate that the regulatory authority can take measures to introduce functional and accounting separation for operators with significant market power (SMP) in the telecom market.

Burkina Faso has not appended the World Trade Organization (WTO) Telecom Reference Paper to its schedule of commitments.

Art. 65 of the Law No. 061-2008/AN established an independent regulatory authority for electronic communications. This institution is known as the Regulatory Authority for Electronic Communications and Posts (Autorité de Régulation des Communications Electroniques et des Postes, ARCEP). It is reported that this authority is independent from the government in the decision-making process.

According to the Art. 42 of Law No. 001-2021/AN, international transfers cannot be made without the respect of the following conditions:
- a request for authorisation of the Commission for Information Technology and Civil Liberties (Commission de l'Informatique et des Libertés, CIL));
- a signature of a data confidentiality clause and a data reversibility clause to facilitate the complete migration of the data at the end of the contract;
- the implementation of technical and organizational security measures.
Additionally, the transfer can only be made to a foreign country or an international organization if the recipient country or international organization ensures an adequate level of protection equal to the one ensured in Burkina Faso.

According to the Bangui Agreement, ratified by 17 French-speaking States, including Burkina Faso, applicants resident outside the territory of the Member States must file through an agent selected in one of those Member States (Section III, Art. 8). The professional status of agent accredited to the African Intellectual Property Organization (OAPI) is governed by the Regulations on the Profession of Authorised Agent before the OAPI.

Burkina Faso is not a signatory of the 1996 World Trade Organization (WTO) Information Technology Agreement (ITA) nor the 2015 expansion (ITA II).

Arts. 111-112 of Decree No. 2017-0049/PRES/PM/MINEFID provide a margin of preference of 10% for local enterprises and enterprises established in the West African Economic and Monetary Union (WAEMU).