Ley del Derecho de Autor, sin excepción de minería de textos y datos, protección de compilaciones
A citation is an address, not a summary. The first part names the law; what follows narrows it to the exact section, article or paragraph.
In force.
A copyright and text and data mining (TDM) rule binding public and private bodies.
As of 5 September 2026.
What it requires
- Do not reproduce a protected work, or a collection of works or of data original in its selection, coordination or arrangement, beyond the narrow personal-use, library-preservation or teaching exceptions this law states.
- There is no text-and-data-mining exception; reproducing copyrighted text at scale to train a model risks infringement unless authorized by the rights holder.
If you get it wrong
Criminal exposureYes
Private right of actionYes
Criminal exposure note
Article 169 states that acts constituting a copyright crime are subject to the penalties the Código Penal sets, without stating a Lempira or imprisonment figure of its own in this law.
What it reaches
Obligation class
TDM
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 9(5) defines a derivative work to include a collection of works or a collection of simple data, protected only where the collection is original by reason of the selection, coordination or arrangement of its content, a compilation-copyright standard rather than a sui generis, investment-based database right.
The limitations chapter (arts. 44-50) permits, without authorization or payment, press reproduction of news and articles of current events not expressly reserved (art. 46(1)), reproduction of fragments of works seen or heard during current events for informational purposes (art. 46(2)), a single personal-use copy made by the user with their own means (art. 47), small-scale photocopying for exclusive personal use (art. 48), library preservation copying of out-of-print works (art. 49), and reprographic reproduction for teaching or examinations without a profit motive (art. 50).
None of these provisions is framed as, or reaches, a text-and-data-mining exception for training a model on scraped text, and no other article of this law creates one. Article 169 refers criminal liability for copyright infringement to the Código Penal without stating a penalty of its own. Article 156 lets the copyright office fine an infringer 10 to 200 monthly minimum wages administratively. Article 174 lets a rights holder seek judicial seizure of infringing copies and claim damages for the infringement.
When LexLint raises it
crawls_webtrains_models