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Law of the Republic of Azerbaijan On Copyright and Related Rights, Law No. 115-IQ (5 June 1996, as amended through Law No. 817-VIQD of 17 February 2023), Arts. 17, 19, 24, 44-47 · Read the law's page

• Reproducing a database, or a substantial part of one, for personal use is not exempted from the author's or database owner's consent the way reproducing an ordinary published work is.
• No exception in this Law permits reproducing copyrighted text or a database for the purpose of training an AI model.
• Do not eliminate a technical protection measure applied to a work or database without the right holder's permission.

Criminal Code of the Republic of Azerbaijan (approved by Law No. 787-IQ of 30 December 1999), Arts. 271-273 · Read the law's page

• Do not intentionally access a computer system, or any part of it, without the right to do so or by violating its security measures, with intent to seize the data stored there or for personal purposes.
• Do not intentionally intercept, by technical means, computer data not intended for general use that is transmitted to, from, or within a computer system, without the right to do so.
• Do not intentionally damage, delete, corrupt, modify, or block computer data, or seriously obstruct a computer system's operation, in a way that causes significant damage.

Law of the Republic of Azerbaijan on Legal Protection of Compilations of Data, No. 755-IIQ (14 September 2004, as amended through Law No. 815-VIQD of 17 February 2023), Arts. 6, 9, 10, 13 · Read the law's page

• Extracting or repeatedly using the whole or an essential part of a database that was prepared, verified, or compiled with essential investment requires the producer's permission, whatever the source of the data it contains.
• Obtaining a protected compilation of data by cracking, directly or indirectly, the technical security measures protecting it is illegal use, even where the compilation is also copyright protected.
• No exception in this Law permits extracting or reusing a protected compilation of data for the purpose of training an AI model.

Arts. 9.1 to 9.4 and 11.1, Law of the Republic of Azerbaijan on Personal Data, Law No. 998-IIIQ · Read the law's page

• Declare the purpose of collecting personal data of a person in Azerbaijan, collect only the data necessary to achieve that purpose, keep the volume and nature of the data you collect and process in line with the declared purpose, and process it only by methods that fit that purpose (Articles 9.1, 9.2 and 11.1).
• Keep personal data accurate and complete, update it when necessary, and destroy it without delay once the purpose of collecting and processing it has been achieved and the need to keep it has ended (Articles 9.3 and 9.4).

Law of the Republic of Azerbaijan on Personal Data, Law No. 998-IIIQ (11 May 2010, as amended through 2023), Arts. 5.3, 9.6 · Read the law's page

• An app scraping personal data that an individual has made public in Azerbaijan, or that appears in a resource created for general use with that individual's consent to its being made public, has a lawful basis for that collection under the Art. 9.6 open-category ground.
• An app scraping personal data that was made public by someone other than the data subject, or without the subject's consent, does not benefit from the open-category ground and needs a separate lawful basis under Art. 9.6 before collecting or processing it.

Mandated by Presidential Decree No. 530 of 19 March 2025, target enactment 2027; being pursued via the 2026-2028 Digital Development Action Plan's Regulatory Sandbox and a reported reform package of 34 laws