Law / Czech Republic

Autorsky zakon Sections 39c-39d, Text and Data Mining Exception Bearing on News Indexing

Zakon c. 121/2000 Sb., o pravu autorskem (autorsky zakon), Sec. 39c and Sec. 39d, as inserted by Zakon c. 429/2022 Sb.

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In force since 5 January 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 does not infringe copyright by reproducing a work, including a press publication, for the purpose of automated textual and data analysis carried out to obtain information such as patterns, trends and correlations, and may keep the copy only for as long as that analysis requires, per Section 39c(1).

That general licence does not apply to a work whose author has expressly reserved the analysis in a suitable way, including through machine-readable means for a work made available online, per Section 39c(2); a news aggregator indexing text so reserved therefore needs the rightholder's authorization.

A separate, non-waivable exception in Section 39d lets a university carrying out scientific research, or a legal person whose main purpose is scientific research or education including research, mine a lawfully accessed work without regard to any rightholder reservation.

What it reaches

Instrument type

statute

Categories

TDM opt-out

When LexLint raises it

  • aggregates_content
  • crawls_web
  • trains_models

Read the law

zakonyprolidi.cz, consolidated text of the Autorsky zakon

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