Autorsky zakon, TDM Exception
Act 185/2015 Coll., ss. 51b-51c (as amended by Act 71/2022 Coll.), scraping
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In force since 25 March 2022.
A copyright and text and data mining (TDM) rule binding public and private bodies.
As of 6 September 2026.
What it requires
- A library, archive, museum, school, or statutory depositary may reproduce a lawfully accessible work for text-and-data-mining for research purposes without the author's consent, and may retain the reproduction to verify the research results.
- Do not reproduce a lawfully accessible work for text-and-data-mining purposes if the rightsholder has expressly reserved that use.
- Keep a reproduction made under the general text-and-data-mining exception only for as long as the mining requires.
What this law does
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Section 51b, inserted by Act No. 71/2022 Coll. transposing Article 3 of the EU Digital Single Market Copyright Directive, lets a library, archive, museum, school, or statutory depositary reproduce a lawfully accessible work for text-and-data-mining for research purposes without the author's consent, with no rightsholder opt-out, and lets the reproduction be retained for verifying the research results.
Section 51c, transposing Article 4 of the same Directive, gives any person a general text-and-data-mining exception, defeated where the rightsholder has expressly reserved that use; a reproduction made under it may be kept only as long as needed for the mining. Section 51b(2) defines data mining, for the purposes of the Act, as any automated analytical technique aimed at analysing data in digital form to obtain patterns, trends, correlations, or similar results.
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