Zakon o autorskom pravu i srodnim pravima, Text and Data Mining Exceptions (Arts. 187-188)
Rudarenje teksta i podataka, Zakon o autorskom pravu i srodnim pravima, NN 111/2021, cl. 187-188
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In force since 22 October 2021.
A copyright and text and data mining (TDM) rule binding public and private bodies.
As of 6 September 2026.
What it requires
- Before using the general text-and-data-mining exception to reproduce a copyrighted work, database or computer program found online in Croatia for AI training, check whether the rightsholder has reserved their rights through a machine-readable signal such as metadata; if they have, the exception does not cover your use.
- The reservation does not apply to text-and-data-mining carried out by a research organisation or cultural heritage institution for scientific research; that mining needs no authorisation or payment regardless of any reservation.
What this law does
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Croatia's Copyright and Related Rights Act creates two text-and-data-mining exceptions transposing the EU Digital Single Market Copyright Directive. Article 187 lets a research organisation or cultural heritage institution reproduce and extract from copyrighted works and databases for scientific-research text-and-data-mining without a rightsholder's authorisation or payment, and a rightsholder cannot override this by contract.
Article 188 extends the same freedom to text-and-data-mining for other purposes, including AI training, but only where the rightsholder has not expressly reserved their rights in an appropriate manner; for a work made available online, the only appropriate reservation is a machine-readable means that includes metadata.
When LexLint raises it
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Read the law
Narodne novine (Official Gazette) 111/2021, text of the Copyright and Related Rights Act