Ley No. 312, protection of compilations and databases
Ley No. 312 (1999, as amended), arts. 14, 31.3
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In force since 31 August 1999.
A database right rule.
As of 5 September 2026.
What it requires
- Do not reproduce the whole, or an important part, of a protected compilation or database in digital form without the rights holder's authorization; the personal-use privilege does not cover it.
- When reproducing a fragment of a protected work under the quotation right, limit the reproduction to what the citation, analysis, comment, or criticism justifies, and name the source and the author.
If you get it wrong
Criminal exposureNo
Private right of actionYes
What it reaches
Obligation class
Attribution
What this law does
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Article 14 protects a collection such as an anthology, a compilation of texts, or a database as an independent work, without prejudice to the copyright in the works it contains, only where the selection or arrangement of its materials constitutes an intellectual creation; Nicaragua confers no sui generis database right beyond that compilation-copyright model.
Article 31 permits reproducing a single copy of a published work without the author's authorization for personal use, but expressly excludes from that privilege the reproduction of the whole or an important part of a database in digital form, so bulk reproduction of a protected database is not covered even for personal use.
Nicaragua has not enacted a text-and-data-mining exception; the general quotation right at article 32, permitting reproduction of a fragment for citation, analysis, comment, or criticism to the extent justified by that purpose, in accordance with fair practice and with the source and author named, is the closest applicable ground for excerpting a protected compilation or database.
The criminal-sanctions chapter the 1999 Act originally carried for copyright violations has since been repealed; civil enforcement runs through article 97, which entitles a rights holder to seek cessation of the infringing activity and compensation for the moral and patrimonial harm caused.
When LexLint raises it
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Read the law
Official consolidated text (Digesto Juridico), Asamblea Nacional de Nicaragua legislation database