Law on Copyright and Related Rights, General Exceptions and Quotation
Law on Copyright and Related Rights, OG No. 115/2010, art. 51-52
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In force.
A copyright and text and data mining (TDM) rule binding public and private bodies.
As of 6 September 2026.
What it requires
- Obtain the rights holder's permission before reproducing a work beyond the enumerated exceptions; a computer program is excluded from this part of the law entirely.
- A quotation used in scientific research, teaching, criticism, polemic or review may be used without permission, to the extent that purpose requires, with the author's name and source credited under art. 52(1)(7).
- No text-and-data-mining-specific exception or machine-readable opt-out exists; a use exceeding the enumerated purposes needs the rights holder's permission.
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What this law does
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Article 51 allows a published work to be used without the author's permission, with or without remuneration, only in special cases that do not conflict with the work's normal exploitation and do not unreasonably prejudice the author's legitimate interests, and excludes a computer program from this part entirely.
Article 52(1) lists the permitted uses, including, at point 7, use of parts of a work (quotations) in scientific research, teaching, criticism, polemic or review, to the extent the specific purpose requires, with the author's name and source credited.
No provision read in this text creates an exception specific to text-and-data-mining or a machine-readable reservation mechanism of the kind the European Union's Digital Single Market Directive introduced, so training a model on text obtained from this jurisdiction rests only on whichever of the enumerated point-7 purposes, if any, the use can be characterized as.
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Read the law
Consolidated text of the Law on Copyright and Related Rights (Закон за авторското право и сродните права)
WIPO Lex record for North Macedonia