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Law / Micronesia

Micronesia

2 of 4 named instruments researched to a stage, across two of the six areas of law we track: 2 in force. As of 5 September 2026.

  1. AI law none researched
  2. Privacy law none researched
  3. Scraping law 1
  4. Cybersecurity law none researched
  5. Age gating law none researched
  6. News aggregation law 1

in forceenacted but not yet in forceproposedrepealed, withdrawn or blocked

Drafted with AI from the cited sources under the direction of UnGovr staff. UnGovr holds editorial responsibility for this page.

Scraping law1 instrument, 1 in force

Research summary (227 words)

The Federated States of Micronesia has no scraping-specific statute, so general law governs each dimension separately.

The national Crimes title (Title 11) has no computer-misuse or unauthorized-access offense; FSM Congress Bill C.B. No. 24-14 (Cybersecurity Act 2025), which would add a new Chapter 4 to Title 21, would regulate only the cybersecurity practices of an owner of designated critical information infrastructure, not create a general offense reaching a person who reads or crawls an ordinary public web page.

No FSM court has addressed the enforceability of a browsewrap or clickwrap terms-of-service against a scraper, or established an unfair-competition, misappropriation, or trespass doctrine for scraping, and no source assigns legal weight to a robots.txt directive or imposes an AI-training-specific rule.

The FSM Copyright Act (Title 35, Chapter 1) permits fair use for purposes including criticism, comment, and research, but contains no text-and-data-mining-specific exception or opt-out, so relying on fair use to train a model on scraped copyrighted text rests on the same general, multi-factor test as any other use.

The Act protects an original compilation as a literary work reaching only the compiler's own selection and arrangement, and confers no separate sui generis database right of the kind some other jurisdictions recognise. The Federated States of Micronesia has no comprehensive or sectoral privacy law reaching personal data scraped from a public FSM website (see this jurisdiction's privacy-topic finding).

Copyright and text and data mining (TDM)

FSM Copyright Act, exclusive rights, fair use, and compilation protection

FSM Code Title 35, Ch. 1 (Copyrights), secs. 101-109Official text of the FSM Code

In force. Binds public and private bodies.

What this law does

Section 106 of the FSM Copyright Act gives a copyright owner the exclusive right to reproduce, prepare derivative works from, distribute, perform, and display a copyrighted work, subject to section 107's fair-use exception, which reaches reproduction for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, or research, weighed against the purpose and commercial character of the use, the nature of the work, the amount used, and the effect on the work's market.

No text-and-data-mining-specific exception or opt-out mechanism exists in the chapter. Section 101 defines a compilation as an original work of authorship formed by selecting, coordinating, or arranging preexisting material or data, and section 103 confines a compilation's copyright to the compiler's own contribution, not the underlying material, so the Act confers no separate sui generis database right over data a scraper collects.

Willful infringement for commercial advantage or private gain is a criminal offense (section 123), and any infringement of the exclusive rights arms the copyright owner with a civil action for an injunction, damages, and court-imposed punitive damages (section 122); the chapter's own text does not state the calendar date on which it took effect.

What it requires

News aggregation law1 instrument, 1 in force

Research summary (106 words)

The Federated States of Micronesia has no press-publisher neighbouring right, no compelled platform-to-publisher bargaining regime, no hot-news or misappropriation doctrine, no reported case on hyperlinking or framing, and no text-and-data-mining-specific exception or opt-out mechanism.

The general fair-use exception of the FSM Copyright Act (Title 35, Chapter 1 of the Code) reaches an aggregator's reproduction of a headline or short extract to the extent the use is for criticism, comment, news reporting, or a similarly weighed purpose, and a compilation of headlines or extracts is itself protectable as an original work of authorship only for the aggregator's own selection and arrangement, not for the underlying material aggregated.

Snippet reproduction

FSM Copyright Act, fair use exception reaching news reporting

FSM Code Title 35, Ch. 1, sec. 107 (Limitation on exclusive rights - Fair use)Official text of the FSM Code

In force. Binds public and private bodies.

What this law does

Section 107 of the FSM Copyright Act exempts the fair use of a copyrighted work, including reproduction, for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, or research, from copyright infringement, weighed against the purpose and commercial character of the use, the nature of the work, the amount used relative to the whole, and the effect on the work's potential market.

Section 101 defines a compilation as an original work of authorship where preexisting material or data is selected, coordinated, or arranged, and section 103 confines a compilation's protection to the compiler's own contribution rather than the underlying material assembled into it.

Note and primary source

This page covers the instruments LexLint has researched to a stage. Instruments named in the corpus but not yet researched are counted in the head and are not listed here. Every entry carries its own primary source on its note page. This is a research index, not legal advice.