Copyright and Neighboring Rights Law, Database and Collection Protection
Llei sobre drets d'autor i drets veïns (Law on Copyright and Neighboring Rights) approved 10 June 1999, arts. 3-4, 14 (Derivative Works and Collections; Subject Matter Not Protected; Free Use of Data Bases)
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In force since 7 July 1999.
A database right rule binding public and private bodies.
As of 5 September 2026.
What it requires
- A collection of works or of mere data, including a database, is protected only if the selection or arrangement of its contents is original; a non-original compilation of facts is not protected and may be freely used.
- Facts, ideas, procedures, and other mere data are never protected by copyright, whichever work they appear in.
- A lawful user of a database may access and make normal use of its contents without the rightholder's authorization, and this cannot be excluded by contract.
- No text-and-data-mining exception or machine-readable opt-out exists under this Law.
What this law does
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Article 3(1)(b) protects a collection of works or of mere data, including a database in machine-readable form, as a copyright work only where the selection or arrangement of its contents is original; Andorra has no separate sui generis database right, so a non-original compilation of facts receives no protection under this Law.
Article 4(1) excludes mere data, and any idea, procedure, system, method of operation, concept, principle, or discovery, from copyright protection regardless of the work in which it is expressed, and article 4(2) excludes official legislative, administrative, or judicial texts.
Article 14 lets a lawful user of a database access its contents and make normal use of them, for whichever acts under article 5(1) that use requires, without the rightholder's authorization, and this exception cannot be excluded by contract. This Law predates the concept of a machine-readable text-and-data-mining reservation, so no copyright exception or opt-out mechanism written for that purpose exists.
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English translation of the Law on Copyright and Neighboring Rights
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