Duty LXD-0099
Crawls the web, in Jamaica
Copyright Act, 1993 (as amended by Act 13 of 2015), fair dealing exceptionssince 1 line
Copyright Act, 1993 (Act 5 of 1993, as amended by Act 13 of 2015), ss. 52-54 · Read the law's page
- A reproduction made for research or private study, or for criticism, review, or reporting current events with sufficient acknowledgement, does not infringe copyright, but no exception is written for text-and-data-mining or model training as such.
Copyright Act, 1993 (as amended by Act 29 of 1999), compilationsin force1 line
Copyright Act, 1993 (Act 5 of 1993, as amended by Act 29 of 1999), s. 6(3A) · Read the law's page
- Copying a compilation's selection and arrangement can infringe the compilation's own copyright, but extracting the underlying works, data, or other material it comprises does not, because no sui generis database right protects that material separately.
Cybercrimes Act, 2015, unauthorised access to computer program or datain force2 lines
Cybercrimes Act, 2015 (Act 31 of 2015), s. 3 · Read the law's page
- Do not knowingly obtain, for yourself or another person, access to any program or data held in a computer unless you are entitled to control that access or have the consent of a person who is so entitled.
- No reported Jamaican decision has held that reading a public, unauthenticated page without defeating any access control falls within this offence, but the statute's consent-based test does not itself exempt public pages.