Liberia Intellectual Property Act, 2016, database compilation and private-copy exclusion (§§ 9.3, 9.4, 9.10)
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In force since 14 June 2016.
A database right rule binding public and private bodies.
As of 5 September 2026.
What it requires
- Treat a database compiled through the selection or arrangement of its contents as a protected work; do not reproduce the whole or a substantial part of it without the rights holder's authorization, even where the reproduction would otherwise qualify as a permitted private copy.
- Do not rely on a text-and-data-mining or general research exception when reproducing a protected work or database for training or analysis purposes; the Act states none.
What this law does
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Liberia's Intellectual Property Act of 2016 protects a compilation of data or other material as a copyright work where its selection or arrangement constitutes an intellectual creation, but that protection does not extend to the underlying data or material itself. Liberia has no separate sui generis database right of the European kind.
The Act's private-reproduction exception, which otherwise permits a single copy of a published work for personal use, expressly does not extend to the whole or a substantial part of a database in digital form. The Act contains no text-and-data-mining exception and no AI-training-specific carve-out.
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