Duty LXD-0108
Crawls the web, in North Korea
Intellectual Property Law, Technical Protective Measures and Liabilitysince 2 lines
Intellectual Property Law, Arts. 12, 18 and 50 to 52, 2025 · Read the law's page
- Do not avoid or destroy the technical protective measures taken to prevent an intellectual property right from being infringed, without the permission of the party concerned or except on the conditions specified by laws.
- Do not abuse a mark indicating an intellectual property right, make a false mark, or erase the mark.
Copyright Law, Computer Program Protection and Use-Without-Permission Exceptionsin force2 lines
Copyright Law, Computer Program Protection and Use-Without-Permission Exceptions, Arts. 9(8) and 32, 2001 (amended 2006) · Read the law's page
- Do not copy, adapt, or otherwise use a copyrighted work, including a computer program, beyond the nine listed permission-free cases (personal or family use, library or archive preservation, school education, state management, press introduction, quotation, free performance, public-place copying, and Braille or sound recording for the blind).
- There is no machine-readable opt-out or text-and-data-mining exception; training on copyrighted North Korean text or software rests only on whether one of the nine listed cases applies.
Criminal Code, Computer and Information Offensesin force3 lines
Criminal Code, Computer and Information Offenses, Arts. 218-219 (as amended by Decree No. 1522 of ) · Read the law's page
- Do not intrude into an information-communication network of the state administration, national defense construction or advanced science research sector to read, steal or destroy data.
- Do not intrude into an information-communication network to read, steal or destroy important information; the paragraph that punishes this names no sector.
- Do not violate electronic business order.
Law on the Protection of Computer Software, Prohibited Acts and Supervisionin force2 lines
Law on the Protection of Computer Software, Arts. 34 and 39, 2003 · Read the law's page
- Do not copy, adapt, sell, or telecast a software, or destroy or remove a technical protection device on it, without the copyright holder's permission, outside the three listed permission-free cases (education, a law-enforcement investigation, or software already distributed free of charge).
- This Law addresses software specifically; it does not itself create a general duty to leave ordinary web content unread.