Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines has no scraping-specific statute, so general law governs each dimension separately. No reported Vincentian decision addresses unauthorised access to a public, unauthenticated web page, the enforceability of a browsewrap or clickwrap terms of service against a scraper, or the legal weight of a robots.txt directive, and no statute assigns robots.txt a legal weight or imposes an AI-training-specific rule.

The Government's own portal lists a Cybercrime Act, 2016 among its official Acts; the operative text of its offence provisions is not reproduced in the copies available for this description, so no computer-misuse instrument is recorded here.

The Copyright Act, 2003 (Act No. 21 of 2003) permits fair dealing with a literary, dramatic, musical or artistic work for research or private study and for criticism, review or reporting current events, subject to a four-factor fairness test, but has no text-and-data-mining exception, so training a model on scraped Vincentian text can rest only on the narrow research-or-private-study ground.

A written table or compilation is protected only as an ordinary literary work conditioned on originality, so the Act confers no sui generis database right, and data drawn from an unoriginal compilation falls outside copyright altogether.

The Electronic Transactions Act, 2015 (Act No. 6 of 2015), which repealed and replaced an earlier Electronic Transactions Act, requires a paper-form access requirement to be satisfied by an equivalent accessible electronic form, but that duty runs between a supplier and its own consumer and does not reach an unrelated party's automated collection of a website's content.

No statute or reported case establishes a Vincentian unfair-competition, misappropriation or trespass doctrine distinct from the causes of action above.

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines has no press-publisher neighbouring right and no mandatory platform-to-publisher bargaining code; the general copyright framework of the Copyright Act, 2003 (Act No. 21 of 2003) is the only law reaching an aggregator's reproduction of news content.

Its fair-dealing provisions permit fair dealing with a work for the purpose of criticism or review or for reporting current events, subject to a sufficient acknowledgement, and section 52 directs a court determining whether a dealing is fair to consider the nature of the work, the extent and substantiality of the part of the work affected, the purpose and character of the use, and the effect of the act on the potential market for or commercial value of the work.

The Act carries no headline-length or short-extract cap distinct from that four-factor test, and no reported Vincentian decision applies it to a systematic news aggregator rather than an individual quoting a published work. Neighbouring rights under the Act protect performers and their recordings, not print or online news publishers, so there is no publisher-side neighbouring right of the kind the European Union's Digital Single Market Directive Article 15 creates.

No statute or case law addresses whether a hyperlink is itself a communication to the public, or whether framing or inline display changes the answer, and no hot-news or misappropriation doctrine distinct from ordinary copyright law exists. The Act predates the concept of a machine-readable text-and-data-mining reservation, so no opt-out mechanism of that kind exists.