Ley N° 9.739 arts. 44-45, illicit-reproduction rule and free-use exceptions for quotation and news
Ley N° 9.739, de 17 de diciembre de 1937, arts. 44 y 45
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In force.
A copyright and text and data mining (TDM) rule binding public and private bodies.
As of 5 September 2026.
What it requires
- Do not reproduce, distribute, communicate, or make a copyrighted work available to the public without the author's consent, unless a free-use exception applies.
- Reproducing news, reports, or journalistic information of general interest without consent is not illicit only where the exact version is kept and the source is credited.
- Transcribing a work for comment, criticism, or controversy without consent is not illicit, but this exception does not extend to text-and-data-mining or model training as such.
If you get it wrong
Criminal exposureNo
Private right of actionNo
What it reaches
Obligation class
Licensing, Attribution
What this law does
Drafted with AI from the cited sources under the direction of UnGovr staff. UnGovr holds editorial responsibility for this page.
Article 44 treats reproducing, distributing, communicating, or making a work available to the public without the author's consent as illicit reproduction, so copying a copyrighted text found on the open web without permission or an applicable exception infringes unless article 45 covers it. Article 45 numeral 4 excepts a transcription made for the purpose of comment, criticism, or controversy, a general quotation right rather than a text-and-data-mining exception.
Article 45 numeral 3 excepts news, reports, journalistic information, or recordings of general interest, but only where the exact version is preserved and the source is stated, a condition suited to a verbatim press clipping rather than to extracting short snippets or training a model on the underlying text.
Uruguay has no text-and-data-mining exception and no machine-readable opt-out mechanism of that kind; a service that reproduces or trains on scraped copyrighted text rests only on the numeral 4 quotation ground if its use can be characterised as comment, criticism, or controversy.
When LexLint raises it
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