Law on Copyright, quotation and news free-use exceptions
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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
- An app training a model on, or reproducing, Mongolian copyrighted text can rely only on the Law's general free-use grounds (quoting for news, research, training, or criticism, or a library's own search database), each conditioned on naming the author and source, a non-profit purpose, a fair-use extent, and no market harm to the original work, because Mongolia has not enacted a text-and-data-mining-specific exception; a use outside those grounds needs the right holder's consent.
What this law does
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Article 38.1 lists limitations that are not copyright infringement provided the use does not contradict the work's normal exploitation and does not affect the rights and legal interests of the right holder, including quoting and using parts of a work to prepare a news item, quoting for research, training, or criticism, and partial use of works held in archives, museums, and libraries; Article 38.2 conditions every one of those uses on naming the author and source, a non-profit purpose, an extent that meets fair use and the purpose of the use, and no economic impact on the market for the work.
Article 42.1.4 separately lets an archive, museum, or library create an electronic database to facilitate searching and analysis of the works it holds, a narrow library-specific allowance rather than a general exception for text and data mining.
The Copyright Law creates no dedicated text-and-data-mining exception of the kind the EU or Japan carry, so training a model on scraped Mongolian copyrighted text rests only on these general free-use and fair-use grounds where the use can be characterised as research, criticism, news preparation, or library preservation.
When LexLint raises it
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Read the law
Unofficial English translation of the Law of Mongolia on Copyright (Revised edition, promulgated 6 May 2021), WIPO Lex legislation record
the text states only its promulgation date and does not itself carry a general commencement-day article