Copyright and Neighbouring Rights Act (ZAPSP), Arts. 26e, 26zh and 26k, Text-and-Data-Mining Exception for Crawling and Training
ZAPSP crawling-training TDM exception (Закон за авторското право и сродните му права, Zakon za avtorskoto pravo i srodnite mu prava) chl. 26e, 26zh i 26k, izm. i dop. DV br. 100 ot 1 dekemvri 2023 g.
A citation is an address, not a summary. The first part names the law; what follows narrows it to the exact section, article or paragraph.
In force since 1 December 2023.
A copyright and text and data mining (TDM) rule binding public and private bodies.
As of 6 September 2026.
What it requires
- Honor an express, machine-readable rights reservation before relying on the general text-and-data-mining exception to reproduce or extract a lawfully accessed work, per ZAPSP Article 26e(4).
- A university, library, or scientific research institute mining for scientific research is not subject to that opt-out, per Article 26zh.
What it reaches
Obligation class
TDM
What this law does
Drafted with AI from the cited sources under the direction of UnGovr staff. UnGovr holds editorial responsibility for this page.
A person with lawful access to a work or other protected subject matter may reproduce it, or extract or reuse a database, without the rightsholder's consent or payment, for the purposes of automated text-and-data analysis, per Article 26e(1) and (2).
A rightsholder may prohibit that use, and for content made available online the prohibition is effective only where established by technical means recognizable by the software performing the analysis, per Article 26e(4), which is the opt-out a crawler must honor.
A separate, unconditional exception in Article 26zh(1) and (3) covers universities, libraries and research and scientific institutes performing automated text-and-data analysis for scientific research, without the Article 26e(4) opt-out. Where a research user under Article 26zh has requested access, the rightsholder must provide it within 72 hours, per Article 26k(2).
When LexLint raises it
crawls_webtrains_models