Law / Lithuania

Copyright Act Arts. 22-1 and 22-2, Text and Data Mining Exceptions

ATGTĮ (Nr. VIII-1185) 22-1 ir 22-2 str., added by Įstatymas Nr. XIV-970 (2022-03-24)

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In force since 1 May 2022.

A text and data mining (TDM) opt-out rule binding public and private bodies.

As of 7 September 2026.

What this law does

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Article 22-1 lets a research organization or cultural-heritage institution reproduce, without the author's permission or remuneration, a work it can lawfully access for non-commercial text-and-data-mining research, keeping the copy only as long as the research requires. A contract term barring reliance on this exception is void. Article 22-2 lets anyone reproduce a lawfully accessible work for text-and-data-mining purposes without permission or remuneration.

That limitation applies only unless the rightsholder has expressly reserved that use by appropriate means, which for content publicly available online means machine-readable means. The same pairing of exceptions reaches a database's contents. Article 63(1)(6) gives research organizations and cultural-heritage institutions an equivalent unconditional right to extract a database for text-and-data-mining research.

Article 63(1)(7) extends the general, opt-out-conditioned exception to any lawful user extracting a database for text-and-data-mining purposes.

What it reaches

Instrument type

statute

Categories

TDM opt-out

When LexLint raises it

  • aggregates_content
  • crawls_web
  • trains_models

Read the law

Autoriu teisiu ir gretutiniu teisiu istatymas (ATGTI), consolidated text, INFOLEX mirror of the Seimas register

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