Law on Copyright, database protection and reproduction restriction
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In force.
A database right rule binding public and private bodies.
As of 6 September 2026.
What it requires
- An app that scrapes, systematically uploads, or otherwise extracts a database created in Mongolia must act consistently with the rights and legitimate interests of the person who created it, and any reproduction of the works or information the database compiles needs a lawful basis under the Law, because the database's creator or rights holder holds the exclusive right to distribute copies of it.
What this law does
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Article 4.1.6 defines a database as a creatively created systematic compilation of works and information, other than a computer program, that can be independently accessed in an electronic or other network environment, and Article 6.1.12 lists databases among the categories of protected work.
Article 23.1 gives the database's creator or rights holder the exclusive right to distribute copies of the database, and Article 24 sets the conditions on which a lawful user of a database may use it: not infringing the copyright of the works it contains, not impeding the database's normal operation, and using only the sections the user is permitted to use.
Article 24.5 separately prohibits reproducing, systematically uploading, or otherwise developing part of a database's information in a way inconsistent with the rights and legitimate interests of the person who created it. This is a compilation-style copyright protection folded into the general Law rather than a stand-alone sui generis database right of the kind the EU or UK carry.
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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, and WIPO Lex notes the 2021 text has since been amended with no consolidated version yet available