Civil Code Part IV, Database Maker's Exclusive Right
Civil Code of the Russian Federation, Part IV, Arts. 1334-1336
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In force.
A database right rule binding public and private bodies.
As of 6 September 2026.
What it requires
- Do not extract materials from a database that required substantial financial, material, or organizational outlay to create, or reuse those materials, without the rightholder's permission, where the database is Russian-made or otherwise covered by Civil Code Article 1336; a database of at least 10,000 independent elements is presumed to meet the substantial-outlay threshold, and extraction covers transferring its whole content or a substantial part onto another medium by any technical means, which reaches automated bulk scraping.
- Expect the database maker's exclusive right to last 15 years from the database's completion or publication, and to renew on every update, under Civil Code Article 1335.
What it reaches
Obligation class
Licensing
What this law does
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Article 1334 grants the maker of a database that required substantial financial, material, organizational, or other outlay to create an exclusive sui generis right to extract materials from the database and reuse them in any form, and bars anyone from extracting materials and reusing them without the rightholder's permission except as the Code provides; a database is presumed to have required substantial outlay if it contains at least 10,000 independent information elements.
Article 1335 sets the term at 15 years from completion (or publication) of the database, renewed on every update. Article 1336 extends the right to a Russian citizen or legal entity, a foreign rightholder whose home state reciprocally protects a Russian maker's database, or as an international treaty otherwise provides.
"Extraction" is defined as transferring the whole content of a database, or a substantial part of its constituent materials, onto another information medium by any technical means and in any form, which reaches automated bulk copying of a database's contents.
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Read the law
Consultant.ru, codified text of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation, Part IV, Arts. 1334-1336