Law / Haiti

Haiti

2 of 6 named instruments researched to a stage, across two of the six areas of law we track: 2 in force. As of 5 September 2026.

AI law none researched
Privacy law none researched
Scraping law 1
Cybersecurity law none researched
Age gating law none researched
News aggregation law 1

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Scraping law1 instrument, 1 in force

Research summary (302 words)

Haiti has no scraping-specific statute, so general law governs each dimension separately, and much of it could not be confirmed against a primary source. No provision was located, in the copyright decree or elsewhere, addressing open-web crawling of public pages as such.

A Code Pénal is reported by press accounts as criminalizing fraudulent access to, or interference with, an automated data-processing system (arts. 587 to 593), and as adopted by decree in 2020 and separately reported as brought into force on 24 June 2025, but no official gazette text was located, a further press account describes implementation preparations still targeting a 1 January 2027 entry into force, and Haiti's older Penal Code, still the version WIPO Lex records as current, carries no computer-specific offence at all, so this Code's current status and content are not established here and no computer-misuse instrument is recorded.

No Haitian case law on the enforceability of a browsewrap or clickwrap terms-of-service against a scraper was located.

The Décret du 12 octobre 2005 sur le Droit d'Auteur predates the concept of a text-and-data-mining exception and carries none, and its own exceptions to copyright are narrow (reproduction for a judicial or administrative proceeding, and, for neighbouring rights only, reproduction for scientific research, teaching, or short-fragment citation of a performance, phonogram, or broadcast); the Decree confers no sui generis database right, but does protect a compilation, such as an anthology, encyclopedia, or database, as a copyright work where the choice, coordination, or arrangement of its contents is an original intellectual creation.

Haiti has no comprehensive data-protection statute, so no privacy-law carve-out or reach over scraped public personal data was found either way. No Haitian statute or reported case establishes a scraping-specific unfair-competition, misappropriation, or trespass doctrine, and none assigns legal weight to a robots.txt directive or imposes an AI-training-specific rule.

Database right

Décret du 12 octobre 2005 sur le Droit d'Auteur, protection des recueils et bases de données

Décret du 12 octobre 2005, Droit d'Auteur, recueilsFrench text of the Decree

In force since 9 March 2006. Binds public and private bodies.

What this law does

The Decree recognizes a compilation of works, folklore expressions, or mere facts or data, such as an encyclopedia, anthology, or database, whether reproduced on a machine-exploitable medium or in any other form, as a protected work where the choice, coordination, or arrangement of its contents constitutes an intellectual creation.

This is an ordinary copyright-style originality test applied to compilations rather than a sui generis database right protecting investment in extraction or verification; the Decree confers no separate database right. Bare facts or data collected into a scraped dataset are not protected on their own, and an unoriginal, purely mechanical arrangement of scraped data would fall outside this provision as well.

The same Decree excludes the news of the day and mere facts, ideas, or data from copyright protection outright, and carries no text-and-data-mining exception; its only reproduction exceptions are for a judicial or administrative proceeding, and, limited to neighbouring rights, for scientific research, teaching, or short-fragment citation of a performance, phonogram, or broadcast.

What it requires

News aggregation law1 instrument, 1 in force

Research summary (188 words)

Haiti has no press-publisher neighbouring right, no mandatory platform-to-publisher bargaining code, no recognized hot-news misappropriation doctrine distinct from ordinary copyright law, and no located statute or case law addressing hyperlinking or framing liability specifically.

The relevant instrument is the Décret du 12 octobre 2005 sur le Droit d'Auteur, which excludes the news of the day (les nouvelles du jour) and mere facts, ideas, or data from copyright protection outright, so a bare fact or news item is never protectable regardless of who first reported it.

The same Decree recognizes a compilation, such as an anthology, encyclopedia, or database, as a protected work where the choice, coordination, or arrangement of its contents is an original intellectual creation.

No general quotation or press-review exception for reproducing headlines or article text was located; the Decree's only citation exception, for short fragments of a performance, phonogram, or broadcast used in reporting a current event, sits in its chapter on neighbouring (performers', producers', and broadcasters') rights and does not reach a written news article.

The Decree predates the concept of a machine-readable text-and-data-mining reservation, so no opt-out mechanism of that kind exists either.

Snippet reproduction

Décret du 12 octobre 2005 sur le Droit d'Auteur, exclusion de l'actualité et des simples faits

Décret du 12 octobre 2005, Droit d'Auteur, actualitéFrench text of the Decree

In force since 9 March 2006. Binds public and private bodies.

What this law does

The Decree excludes from copyright protection official legislative, administrative, or judicial texts and their official translations, the news of the day, and ideas, procedures, systems, operating methods, concepts, principles, discoveries, or mere facts or data, even where these are stated, described, explained, illustrated, or incorporated in a work.

The same provision recognizes a compilation of works, folklore expressions, or mere facts or data, such as an encyclopedia, anthology, or database, whether reproduced on a machine-exploitable medium or in any other form, as a protected work where the choice, coordination, or arrangement of its contents constitutes an intellectual creation.

The Decree carries no general quotation or press-review exception for reproducing a headline or article text from a protected literary work; its only citation exception, limited to short fragments of a performance, phonogram, or broadcast used to report a current event, sits in the chapter on neighbouring rights and does not reach a written news article. The Decree replaced and repealed the earlier Décret du 9 janvier 1968 on copyright.

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.