Law on Copyright and Related Rights, protection of compilations and databases
Law No. 6-I (10 June 1996), Art. 7
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In force.
A database right rule binding private bodies.
As of 6 September 2026.
What it requires
- A database is protected by copyright only as a compilation, where the selection or arrangement of its contents is itself the result of creative labour; scraping the contents of a database whose selection or arrangement does not meet that test does not implicate this Article.
What this law does
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Article 7(1) lists the categories of works that are copyright objects, and Article 7(3)(2) extends that protection to compilations, naming encyclopedias, anthologies and databases by way of example, and other compound works that represent, by the selection or arrangement of their materials, the result of creative labour; a derivative or compound work is protected regardless of whether the underlying works it is based on or includes are themselves copyright objects.
The text read confers no sui generis database right distinct from this compilation copyright, so a database whose selection or arrangement is not itself the result of creative labour falls outside Article 7 altogether. Article 7 was most recently touched by Law No. 233-VIII (24 November 2025), a terminology amendment on the text read.
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