UrhG Section 42h(6), Text-and-Data-Mining Opt-Out for Aggregation
UrhG Sec. 42h(6), BGBl. Nr. 111/1936 as amended by BGBl. I Nr. 244/2021
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In force since 1 January 2022.
A text and data mining (TDM) opt-out rule binding public and private bodies.
As of 6 September 2026.
What this law does
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Section 42h(6) UrhG lets any person, for any purpose, reproduce a work they have lawfully accessed in order to mine text and data in digital form automatically, including for indexing and aggregation. This general exception does not apply where the rightsholder has expressly prohibited the reproduction and signaled that prohibition adequately, in particular through machine-readable means for a work made available online.
This is Austria's transposition of the Digital Single Market (DSM) Directive's general, opt-out-based text-and-data-mining exception, distinct from the narrower, non-waivable scientific-research exception in Section 42h(1) to (5). No dedicated 'Section 42i' exists in the consolidated UrhG; an earlier dossier entry citing that section number for this exception was checked against the primary text and corrected here.
What it reaches
Instrument type
statute
Categories
TDM opt-out
When LexLint raises it
aggregates_contentcrawls_webtrains_models
Read the law
Urheberrechtsgesetz (UrhG), JUSLINE Osterreich consolidated text