Ley N° 1328/1998, arts. 8, 40 y 41, límites y excepciones al derecho de autor
Ley N° 1328/1998, de Derecho de Autor y Derechos Conexos, arts. 8, 40 y 41
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In force since 20 October 1998.
A copyright and text and data mining (TDM) rule binding public and private bodies.
As of 5 September 2026.
What it requires
- Paraguay has no text-and-data-mining exception; a general fair-practice quotation exception, and a narrower current-affairs press exception, are the only exceptions available and both can be defeated by the rightsholder's express reservation.
- Do not treat the news of the day, mere facts or data, or official legislative, administrative or judicial texts as protected by copyright; they fall outside the law's scope entirely.
- When quoting or reproducing a lawfully disclosed work under either exception, name the author and the source and stay within what fair practice and the exception's own purpose justify.
If you get it wrong
Criminal exposureNo
Private right of actionNo
What it reaches
Obligation class
TDM
What this law does
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Article 8 excludes several categories from copyright protection outright: ideas, official legislative, administrative or judicial texts, the news of the day, and mere facts or data. Article 40 permits quoting a lawfully disclosed work without the author's authorization or payment, on condition that the author's name and the source are indicated and the quotation conforms to fair practice and is justified by its purpose.
Article 41 separately permits, without authorization or payment and subject to naming the author and the source, the reproduction and distribution by the press, or transmission by any medium, of current-affairs articles on economic, social, artistic, political or religious questions published in the media or broadcast, but only where the reproduction or disclosure has not been made the subject of an express reservation by the rightsholder, and article 45 requires every exception in this chapter to be interpreted restrictively and never applied contrary to fair practice.
No text-and-data-mining exception, machine-readable or otherwise, has been enacted in Paraguay, so scraping a copyrighted text for model training rests only on articles 40 and 41's general exceptions, both narrower than a text and data mining (TDM) carve-out and both defeated by an express reservation.
When LexLint raises it
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Read the law
Official text of Ley N° 1328/1998
de Derecho de Autor y Derechos Conexos, published by the Biblioteca y Archivo Central del Congreso Nacional (BACN)