UrhG Section 42h, Text-and-Data-Mining Exception
UrhG Sec. 42h, BGBl. Nr. 111/1936 as amended by BGBl. I Nr. 244/2021
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In force since 1 January 2022.
A copyright and text and data mining (TDM) rule binding public and private bodies.
As of 6 September 2026.
What it requires
- You may reproduce a lawfully accessed work to mine text and data for scientific or artistic research through a research organization or cultural-heritage institution, and this right cannot be waived by contract, per UrhG Section 42h(1) to (5).
- For any other text-and-data-mining use, do not reproduce a work if the rightsholder has expressly reserved their rights in an adequately signaled, and for online works machine-readable, manner, per UrhG Section 42h(6).
What this law does
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Section 42h(1) to (5) lets a research organization, a cultural-heritage institution, or an individual researcher acting for one, reproduce a lawfully accessed work to mine text and data for scientific or artistic research, and store the reproduction as long as the research purpose justifies it; this exception cannot be contracted away and applies even where a for-profit undertaking participates in a public-private partnership with the research or heritage institution.
Section 42h(6) creates a separate, general exception letting any person reproduce a lawfully accessed work for their own text-and-data-mining, for any purpose, unless the rightsholder has expressly prohibited the reproduction through an adequately signaled reservation, in particular a machine-readable one for works made available online.
The dossier for this visit listed a distinct 'Section 42i' covering the general opt-out exception; no such section exists in the consolidated UrhG text read for this visit, and the general exception is Section 42h(6) itself.
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Read the law
Urheberrechtsgesetz (UrhG), JUSLINE Osterreich consolidated text