Criminal Code, infringement of copyright and related rights
Criminal Code (1998, as amended to 2020), Art. 156
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In force.
A copyright and text and data mining (TDM) rule binding public and private bodies.
As of 6 September 2026.
What it requires
- An app must not use, copy, store, transport or transfer a copyrighted work or phonogram without the copyright holder's authorization where doing so causes major damage; no scientific-research, quotation or text-and-data-mining exception has been identified for this offense.
If you get it wrong
Criminal exposureYes
Private right of actionNo
Criminal exposure note
Illegal use of copyright or related-rights objects, or dealing in illegal copies of works or phonograms for sale, causing major damage is punished with a fine of two hundred and fifty to three hundred and sixty-five calculation indices or imprisonment of up to two years, rising to a fine of three hundred and sixty-five to nine hundred and twelve calculation indices or imprisonment of two to five years where committed by a group of persons, causing especially large damage, or by a person using an official position.
What this law does
Drafted with AI from the cited sources under the direction of UnGovr staff. UnGovr holds editorial responsibility for this page.
Art. 156 criminalizes appropriation of authorship (plagiarism) and coercion to co-authorship where the act causes the author or another copyright holder major damage, and separately criminalizes illegal use of copyright or related-rights objects, or the acquisition, storage, transportation or transfer of illegal copies of works or phonograms for sale, where either act causes major damage.
The article states no fair-use, quotation, scientific-research or text-and-data-mining exception for reproducing a protected work, and no separate provision addressing such an exception has been identified among the sources reached.
When LexLint raises it
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Read the law
Official English translation of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Tajikistan (1998, as amended)
legislationline.org, in an Internet Archive capture of the document