Ophavsretsloven Sections 11b-11c, Text and Data Mining Exception
Ophavsretsloven sections 11 b-11 c (Tekst- og datamining), Lovbekendtgorelse nr. 1093 af 20. august 2023, inserted by Lov nr. 680 af 6. juni 2023
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In force.
A copyright and text and data mining (TDM) rule binding public and private bodies.
As of 6 September 2026.
What it requires
- Do not extract from, or make copies of, a work you have lawful access to for commercial text and data mining, including AI training, where the rights holder has expressly reserved that use in an appropriate manner such as a machine-readable opt-out.
- A research organization or cultural heritage institution carrying out text and data mining for scientific research is not subject to that reservation.
What this law does
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A person with lawful access to a work may extract from it and make copies of it for text and data mining, defined as any automated analytical technique for analysing text and data in digital form to generate information such as patterns, trends and correlations, provided the rights holder has not expressly reserved the use of the work in an appropriate manner, and the resulting copies may be kept as long as needed for the mining.
A separate, non-waivable exception in section 11c lets a research organization or cultural heritage institution with lawful access extract from and copy a work for text and data mining carried out for scientific research, including within a public-private partnership, without the reservation that limits the general exception.
Lov nr. 680 af 6. juni 2023, which inserted these sections, provides that it takes effect on publication in Lovtidende; a specific commencement day beyond that is not confirmed in the primary text.
When LexLint raises it
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Read the law
Ophavsretsloven, official consolidated text, Retsinformation.dk