Law / Bulgaria

Copyright and Neighbouring Rights Act (ZAPSP), Arts. 26e, 26zh and 26k, Text-and-Data-Mining Exception for News Aggregation

ZAPSP news-aggregation 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.

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In force since 1 December 2023.

A text and data mining (TDM) opt-out rule binding public and private bodies.

As of 6 September 2026.

What this law does

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A person with lawful access to a work, including a press publication, may reproduce it or extract data from it for automated text-and-data analysis without the rightsholder's consent, per Article 26e(1).

A rightsholder, including a press publisher, may reserve that use by a machine-readable technical means, such as a robots.txt-style signal, which is binding once so established, per Article 26e(4); a news aggregator indexing press content must honor that reservation to remain within the exception.

A separate, unconditional exception in Article 26zh covers universities, libraries and research institutes mining for scientific research, and Article 26k(2) obliges a rightsholder to give such a research user access within 72 hours of a request.

What it reaches

Instrument type

statute

Categories

TDM opt-out

When LexLint raises it

  • aggregates_content
  • crawls_web
  • trains_models

Read the law

State Gazette (Darzhaven vestnik), Issue 100 of 1 December 2023, Act amending the Copyright and Neighbouring Rights Act

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