Copyright Law, database protection
Law on Copyright and Related Rights (2003), Arts. 7-8, 21(c), 24(c)
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In force.
A database right rule binding public and private bodies.
As of 6 September 2026.
What it requires
- A database compiled from Cambodian sources is protected as its own copyrighted work; reproducing the whole or a substantial part of a digital database is not covered by the personal-use copying exception available for other published works.
What this law does
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Article 7(f) defines a database as an aggregate of information, articles, or diagrams systematically constructed so that it can be searched with the aid of a computer. Article 8 protects a compilation of databases, in machine-readable or other form, as a work in its own right without prejudice to the copyright in the material it compiles. Article 21(c) lists a database among the works whose rental or public lending is reserved to the author's exclusive economic right.
Article 24(c) then excludes the whole or a substantial part of a digital database from the personal-use copying exception that otherwise lets a natural person make one copy of a published work without permission. Protection therefore runs through ordinary compilation copyright rather than through a sui generis right in the underlying data itself; the Act creates no database right independent of that compilation-copyright theory.
When LexLint raises it
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Read the law
Official English translation of the Law on Copyright and Related Rights (2003), WIPO Lex