Copyright Act, 2023, database protection
Copyright Act, 2023, Act No. 34 of 2023, s.2(11), s.2(16) (database as a protected work)
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In force since 18 September 2023.
A database right rule binding public and private bodies.
As of 6 September 2026.
What it requires
- Do not reproduce or extract a database that reflects the compiler's own intellectual expression without the rightsholder's permission or a Rules-specified exception; Bangladesh has not enacted a text-and-data-mining exception, so training a model on such a database rests only on whatever the unlocated implementing Rules for the Act's general reproduction exception may allow.
What this law does
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Section 2(11) lists a database among the eight enumerated categories of a copyrightable "work", alongside literary, dramatic, musical and artistic works, film, sound recording, broadcast, and performance.
Section 2(16) defines "database" as an electronically or otherwise systematically arranged collection of original works in which the compiler's own intellectual expression exists and which can be used through electronic or other means, an originality-based standard rather than an investment-based sui generis extraction right of the kind the EU Database Directive creates.
The Act does not carry a text-and-data-mining exception, and its general reproduction and "good use" exception for a literary work (s.70(1)) leaves the purpose and conditions under which reproduction does not infringe copyright to be set by Rules not otherwise identified.
When LexLint raises it
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Read the law
official statute text, Bangladesh Laws (bdlaws.minlaw.gov.bd)