Copyright Act, Exclusive Reproduction Right, No Text and Data Mining Exception
Ley 23 de 1982, art. 12 (as amended by Ley 1915 de 2018)
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In force since 12 July 2018.
A copyright and text and data mining (TDM) rule binding public and private bodies.
As of 5 September 2026.
What it requires
- Obtain the author's authorization before reproducing a copyrighted work by any means, including temporary electronic storage during crawling, since no text-and-data-mining exception applies.
- Do not rely on the quotation, teaching, or private-copy exceptions to reproduce copyrighted text at scale for model training; they are narrow and conditioned on non-commercial, limited use.
Who enforces it
Enforcement body
Direccion Nacional de Derecho de Autor
What it reaches
Obligation class
Licensing
What this law does
Drafted with AI from the cited sources under the direction of UnGovr staff. UnGovr holds editorial responsibility for this page.
Article 12, as rewritten by article 3 of Ley 1915 de 2018, gives the author the exclusive right to authorize or prohibit reproduction of the work by any means or form, permanent or temporary, including temporary electronic storage, as well as communication to the public, distribution, importation, commercial rental, and transformation.
Ley 23 de 1982 creates no text-and-data-mining exception and no machine-readable opt-out mechanism; its narrow enumerated exceptions (quotation with attribution, illustration for non-commercial teaching, single-copy reproduction for private non-commercial use) do not create a general ground for reproducing copyrighted text to train a model.
Colombian copyright law confers no sui generis database right; a compilation is protected only as a collective work for eighty years from publication in favor of its director, under article 24.
When LexLint raises it
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Read the law
Ley 23 de 1982 sobre Derechos de Autor, as amended by Ley 1915 de 2018, official text, WIPO Lex