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Law No. 1/021 of December 30, 2005 on the Protection of Copyright and Related Rights, database and facts exclusions

Loi n° 1/021, Database and Facts Exclusion (Arts. 7 et 26.1), portant protection du droit d'auteur et des droits voisins, 30 décembre 2005

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In force since 30 December 2005.

A database right rule binding public and private bodies.

As of 4 September 2026.

What it requires

  • Treat a database compiled through the selection or arrangement of its contents as a protected work: do not reproduce all or a substantial part of it without the rights holder's authorization, even for otherwise-permitted private use.
  • Rely only on the Law's enumerated exceptions rather than a general fair-use or text-and-data-mining defense when quoting, analyzing, or reproducing a protected work: a quotation compatible with fair practice, a press review, or current-events reporting, each requiring source and author credit, and none framed as covering AI training.

What it reaches

Obligation class

Attribution

What this law does

Drafted with AI from the cited sources under the direction of UnGovr staff. UnGovr holds editorial responsibility for this page.

Burundi's copyright statute treats a database as a protected compilation rather than through a separate sui generis database right. Article 26(1)(a)'s private-copy exception expressly excludes reproducing all or major parts of a database in digital format, meaning a database is a protected work whose substantial reproduction the rights holder can otherwise prevent; there is no separate sui generis database right of the EU kind.

Article 7 excludes official texts, daily news, and mere facts and data from copyright protection outright.

Article 26 also lets a person quote a lawfully published work, including newspaper articles and periodicals in the form of press summaries, and reproduce a current-events news article or broadcast subject to source attribution, unless publication was accompanied by an express reservation against such use; none of these exceptions is framed as a text-and-data-mining carve-out, and nothing in the Law addresses AI training specifically.

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Read the law

Law No. 1/021 of December 30
2005 on the Protection of Copyright and Related Rights in Burundi, English translation as published by WIPO Lex, WIPO's own legislative database

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