Law on Legal Protection of Compilations of Data, sui generis database right
Law of the Republic of Azerbaijan on Legal Protection of Compilations of Data No. 755-IIQ (14 September 2004, as amended through Law No. 639-IVQD of 30 April 2013), Arts. 6, 9, 10, 13
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In force since 11 November 2004.
A database right rule binding public and private bodies.
As of 6 September 2026.
What it requires
- Extracting or repeatedly using the whole or an essential part of a database that was prepared, verified, or compiled with essential investment requires the producer's permission, whatever the source of the data it contains.
- Obtaining a protected compilation of data by cracking, directly or indirectly, the technical security measures protecting it is illegal use, even where the compilation is also copyright protected.
- No exception in this Law permits extracting or reusing a protected compilation of data for the purpose of training an AI model.
If you get it wrong
Criminal exposureYes
Private right of actionYes
Criminal exposure note
Art. 19 states that a person guilty of illegal use of a compilation of data is subject to civil, administrative, and criminal liability, without stating a fine amount or naming a specific Criminal Code article in this Law's own text.
What this law does
Drafted with AI from the cited sources under the direction of UnGovr staff. UnGovr holds editorial responsibility for this page.
Art. 6.1 gives the producer of a compilation of data prepared, verified, and compiled with essential investment a right to prohibit extraction or repeated use of the compilation, or an essential part of it, applying regardless of whether the content is itself copyright-protected (Art. 6.3). Art. 6.2 measures the essential-investment threshold by financial resources or a considerable investment of time and energy, and newness or the data's own value is not required.
The right runs for fifteen years from the year following the compilation's creation, restarting on a substantial new investment (Art. 10). Art. 9 exempts non-commercial personal use by non-electronic means, non-commercial educational or research illustration use, and use for public safety or administrative or legal proceedings, but carries no text-and-data-mining or AI-training exception.
Art. 13.2 separately treats obtaining a protected compilation of data by directly or indirectly cracking the technical security measures used to protect it as illegal use, regardless of whether the compilation is protected by copyright, by this sui generis right, or both.
This Law is amended to 2023 by Law No. 815-VIQD, but the current amended text is available on WIPO Lex only in Azerbaijani; the English translation used here reflects the Law as amended through 2013 and does not confirm the content of the later amendment.
When LexLint raises it
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Read the law
Official English translation as amended through 2013, WIPO Lex