Duty LXD-0029
Crawls the web, in Belize
Each law's tag says when it binds: since in force from a date not yet set not yet in force
Copyright Act, fair dealing exceptionssince 2 lines
Copyright Act, Cap. 252 (Act No. 12 of 2000, Revised Edition 2020), ss. 56-58 · Read the law's page
- Reproducing copyrighted Belizean text for research, private study, or reporting current events may fall within fair dealing, but training a model on it or crawling it at scale has not been tested against the fair-dealing factors in a reported case.
- There is no text-and-data-mining exception or database right to rely on instead.
Cybercrime Act, illegal access to a computer systemsince 1 line
Cybercrime Act, Cap. 106:01 (Act No. 32 of 2020), s. 3 · Read the law's page
- Do not access a computer system of another person without authorisation, in excess of authorisation, or by infringing a security measure, and do not continue to exceed authorised access once it is withdrawn.
Data Protection Act 2021, personal data scraped from public sourcesfrom a date not yet set2 lines
Data Protection Act, 2021 (Act No. 45 of 2021), ss. 2-10 · Read the law's page
- Scraping personal data of a person in Belize from a public website does not by itself place that data outside the Act's lawful-basis and purpose-limitation duties.
- A narrower exception lets sensitive personal data, including biometric data, be processed without the ordinary conditions where the data subject deliberately made the information public.