Copyright and Related Rights Law, database exclusion and enforcement remedies
Law of the Republic of Azerbaijan On Copyright and Related Rights Law No. 115-IQ (5 June 1996, as amended through Law No. 817-VIQD of 17 February 2023), Arts. 17, 19, 24, 44-47
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In force since 23 October 1996.
A copyright and text and data mining (TDM) rule binding public and private bodies.
As of 6 September 2026.
What it requires
- Reproducing a database, or a substantial part of one, for personal use is not exempted from the author's or database owner's consent the way reproducing an ordinary published work is.
- No exception in this Law permits reproducing copyrighted text or a database for the purpose of training an AI model.
- Do not eliminate a technical protection measure applied to a work or database without the right holder's permission.
If you get it wrong
Criminal exposureYes
Private right of actionYes
Criminal exposure note
Art. 47 is a bare reference to civil, administrative, and criminal responsibility under Azerbaijani legislation generally, with no fine amount or specific Criminal Code article named in this Law's own text.
Statutory damages
Art. 45.2(2): a court may award compensation of 110 to 55,000 manat in lieu of damage reimbursement or collecting the infringer's income. This is a single per-case range election available to the right holder, not a negligent/reckless tier structure or a strictly per-person amount.
- As of
- 6 September 2026
- Currency
- AZN
- Per person minimum
- 110
What this law does
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Art. 17 permits reproducing one copy of a lawfully published work for personal, non-profit use without consent or remuneration, but Art. 17.2 excludes several categories from this allowance, including the reproduction of databases or a substantial part of one, reproduction of computer programs (subject to Art. 24's own exception), and reprographic reproduction of whole books.
Art. 19 permits, without consent or remuneration but with mandatory attribution, short informational quotations and press-review use, and reproducing lawfully published articles on current affairs unless the author has prohibited it, but carries no text-and-data-mining exception for training a model on the reproduced text.
Art. 24 lets a person lawfully possessing computer software or a database modify it, and make an archival or working copy, without the author's consent, but this is a narrow lawful-possessor exception rather than a general mining or scraping right. Art. 44.3(a) separately forbids eliminating a technical protection measure without the right holder's permission.
Art. 47 makes an infringement give rise to civil, administrative, and criminal responsibility under Azerbaijani legislation generally, without stating an amount or naming a specific provision in this Law's own text, and Art. 45.2(2) lets a court award the right holder compensation of 110 to 55,000 manat per case in lieu of proving actual damage or collecting the infringer's income.
When LexLint raises it
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Read the law
Official English translation of the current consolidated text, WIPO Lex