Law No. 2-00 on Copyright and Related Rights, Database and Reproduction Provisions
Law No. 2-00 on Copyright and Related Rights Arts. 5(b), 10 and 12(c) (database and reproduction provisions), promulgated by Dahir No. 1-00-20 of 9 Kaada 1420 (15 February 2000), as amended by Law No. 34-05
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In force since 6 January 2001.
A database right rule binding public and private bodies.
As of 6 September 2026.
What it requires
- Do not reproduce all or part of a database in digital form without the rights holder's authorization, even for a personal or non-commercial use; the private-use exception does not reach a digital-form database.
- Treat a compilation, encyclopedia, anthology, or database as a copyright-protected work when its selection, coordination, or arrangement of contents constitutes an original intellectual creation, regardless of the medium it is recorded on.
- Rely only on the Law's enumerated exceptions (quotation, teaching, judicial and administrative use, library archiving, and similar narrow purposes) rather than a general fair-use or text-and-data-mining defense; none of them addresses training an AI model on copyrighted content or a compiled database.
If you get it wrong
Criminal exposureYes
Private right of actionYes
Criminal exposure note
Wilful, commercially-motivated infringement carries imprisonment of two to six months and a fine of 10,000 to 100,000 dirhams under Article 64, doubled for a repeated infringement (Art. 64.1) and raised to one to four years' imprisonment and a fine of 60,000 to 600,000 dirhams for a new infringement within five years of a final judgment (Art. 64.2).
Penalty structure
Base tier (Art. 64, as amended by Law No. 34-05): imprisonment of two to six months and a fine of 10,000 to 100,000 dirhams for a wilful, commercially-motivated infringement of the reproduction rights this instrument covers, doubled under Art. 64.1 for a repeated infringement, and raised under Art. 64.2 to imprisonment of one to four years and a fine of 60,000 to 600,000 dirhams for a new infringement committed less than five years after a final judgment for an earlier one. Article 62 separately lets the rights holder choose, in a civil action, between actual damages plus the infringer's profits or pre-established damages of 5,000 to 25,000 dirhams, with a floor of at least 50% of the value of the infringing operation where a court finds a continuing risk of infringement.
- Rule
- Fixed only
- As of
- 6 September 2026
- Minimum
- 10,000
- Currency
- MAD
- Fixed cap
- 600,000
Who enforces it
Enforcement body
Bureau marocain du droit d'auteur (Moroccan Copyright Office) and the competent civil and criminal courts
What it reaches
Obligation class
Prohibition
What this law does
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Article 5(b) protects a compilation, encyclopedia, anthology or database as a copyrightable work where the selection, coordination or arrangement of its contents constitutes an original intellectual creation, whether recorded on a machine-readable medium or otherwise, rather than through a separate sui generis database right.
Article 12 permits free reproduction of a lawfully published work for the user's exclusively private use, but its second paragraph, at 12(c), expressly withholds that exception from the reproduction of the whole or part of a database in digital form, so a digital-form database stays within the author's exclusive right regardless of the reproducer's private purpose.
A wilful, commercially-motivated infringement of these rights is punished under Article 64 (as amended) by imprisonment and a fine, doubled for a repeated infringement and further increased for a new infringement within five years of a final judgment, and Article 62 lets the rights holder choose between actual damages plus the infringer's profits or pre-established damages of 5,000 to 25,000 dirhams.
Article 70 states that the Law's provisions enter into force six months after publication in the Bulletin Officiel, which the same source dates to 6 July 2000, placing the commencement date six months later.
When LexLint raises it
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