Código Ingenios, uso justo y minería de textos
Arts. 211-212 Código Ingenios (Código Orgánico de la Economía Social de los Conocimientos, Creatividad e Innovación), uso justo y actos que no requieren autorización
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In force since 9 December 2016.
A copyright and text and data mining (TDM) rule binding public and private bodies.
As of 5 September 2026.
What it requires
- A use falling within the article 212 list, including library, archive, or museum text mining of a work already in the collection, does not require the rights holder's authorization, provided it does not conflict with the work's normal exploitation or unjustifiably prejudice the rights holder.
- Text and data mining outside that library, archive, or museum context, such as mining text scraped from the open web for model training, is not covered by this exception and needs another lawful basis.
What this law does
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Article 211 states that using or exploiting a protected work or performance in the cases the next article lists is not a violation of patrimonial rights, provided it does not conflict with the work's normal exploitation and does not cause unjustified prejudice to the rights holder's legitimate interests, tested against a four-factor standard (the purpose and nature of the use, the nature of the work, the amount used relative to the whole, and the effect on the work's market value).
Article 212 then lists the acts that do not require authorization, including brief quotation for analysis, comment, or criticism with attribution, and, at item 9, an enumerated set of purposes for which a library, archive, or museum may reproduce a single copy of a work already in its collection, the eighth of which is text mining.
The exception is therefore not a general-purpose text-and-data-mining allowance: it is available only to a library, archive, or museum reproducing a work already in its own collection, not to a commercial or research entity scraping or mining text from the open web at large.
When LexLint raises it
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Read the law
Official Código Ingenios text (Registro Oficial Suplemento 899, 9 de diciembre de 2016)
reproduced by the Ministerio de Telecomunicaciones y de la Sociedad de la Información's Gobierno Electrónico portal