Electronic Commerce Law, Copyright in Digital Works Chapter
Electronic Commerce Law (2003), Arts. 62-63 (copyright in digital works) and Art. 74 (penalty)
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In force since 24 October 2003.
A copyright and text and data mining (TDM) rule binding public and private bodies.
As of 6 September 2026.
What it requires
- Do not copy, perform, distribute, supply or publish a copyrighted electronic data message without the author's permission.
- A temporary copy made only because it is an inevitable part of processing a data message on a network is exempt from that permission requirement.
- No exception in this Law covers copying for text-and-data-mining or AI-model training beyond that temporary, network-processing copy.
If you get it wrong
Criminal exposureYes
Criminal exposure note
Violating the copyright chapter (Arts. 62-63) is corrective imprisonment of three months to one year or a fine of up to 50,000,000 Rials (Art. 74).
Penalty structure
Fine only; Article 74 also allows corrective imprisonment of three months to one year instead of the fine.
- Rule
- Fixed only
- As of
- 6 September 2026
- Currency
- IRR
- Fixed cap
- 50,000,000
What this law does
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Article 62 extends the copyright regime of the Act on Protection of Authors, Composers and Artists Rights (1970), the 1976 translation-and-reproduction law and the 2000 computer-software-producers law to a work in the form of an electronic 'data message', so the right to copy, perform, distribute, supply and publish such a work belongs exclusively to the author.
Article 63 exempts a temporary act of copying, performing or distributing a work where that act is an inevitable part of processing the data message on a network, a caching-style exception that is not conditioned on the copy being made for training or for any other stated purpose. Article 74 makes violating the copyright chapter an offence carrying corrective imprisonment of three months to one year or a fine of up to 50,000,000 Rials.
Neither Article 62 nor Article 63 states a text-and-data-mining-specific rule or an AI-training carve-out; the underlying 1970 Act's own quotation exception (Art. 7, recorded under the aggregation topic for this jurisdiction) is a closed list that reaches no data-mining purpose. The Electronic Commerce Law entered into force on 24 October 2003.
When LexLint raises it
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