Crawls the web, in Latvia
Autortiesību likums Chapter IX, Sui Generis Database Rightsince 2 lines
Autortiesību likums, IX nodaļa (57.-62. pants), Datubāzes aizsardzības īpatnības (sui generis), grozīta ar 2023. gada 23. marta likumu, stājas spēkā 05.04.2023. · Read the law's page
- Do not extract (permanently or temporarily transfer to another medium) or re-utilize (make available to the public) the whole, or a qualitatively or quantitatively substantial part, of a database that reflects a substantial investment by its maker, absent authorization or a statutory exception, per Article 57.
- Do not repeatedly and systematically extract or re-utilize insubstantial parts of such a database in a way that conflicts with its normal use or unreasonably prejudices the maker's legitimate interests, per Article 57(4).
Personal Data Processing Law (Fizisko personu datu apstrādes likums)since 1 line
Fizisko personu datu apstrades likums, Latvijas Vestnesis No. 132 (2018), in force · Read the law's page
- Establish a GDPR Article 6 lawful basis before processing personal data of a person in Latvia, including data collected by crawling.
Autortiesību likums Article 21.1, Text and Data Mining Exception (News Indexing and Aggregation)since 4 lines
Autortiesību likums (aggregation), 21.1 pants, pievienots ar 2023. gada 23. marta likumu 'Grozījumi Autortiesību likumā' (Latvijas Vēstnesis, 67, 04.04.2023.), stājas spēkā 05.04.2023. · Read the law's page
- You may reproduce a lawfully accessible work, including a press publication or its fragments, to carry out text and data mining (Article 21.1).
- Keep copies made for text and data mining only as long as the mining needs them.
- Honour a prohibition given by a rights holder, including a press publisher, by clear notice in an appropriate manner; for publicly accessible works online the prohibition must be machine-readable, including through metadata, so check for it before automated indexing.
- A research organization or cultural heritage institution mining lawfully accessible works for scientific research may do so without that opt-out, and Article 21.2 cannot be waived.
Autortiesību likums Article 21.1, Text and Data Mining Exception (Scraping and AI Training)since 3 lines
Autortiesību likums (scraping), 21.1 pants, pievienots ar 2023. gada 23. marta likumu 'Grozījumi Autortiesību likumā' (Latvijas Vēstnesis, 67, 04.04.2023.), stājas spēkā 05.04.2023. · Read the law's page
- Honor a rights holder's explicit, machine-readable opt-out before relying on the general text-and-data-mining exception to reproduce a lawfully accessible work, per Article 21.1(3).
- Keep a copy made under the text-and-data-mining exception only as long as needed for the mining itself, per Article 21.1(2).
- A research organization or cultural heritage institution mining lawfully accessible works for research purposes is not subject to that opt-out, per Article 21.2, but that exception does not reach computer programs.
Law on the Latvian Artificial Intelligence Centre (Mākslīgā intelekta centra likums)since 0 lines
Mākslīgā intelekta centra likums, adopted by Saeima , published in Latvijas Vēstnesis No. 55 (2025); in force
Krimināllikums Sections 241, 243, 244, Automated Data Processing System Offencesin force3 lines
Krimināllikums, 241., 243. un 244. pants · Read the law's page
- Do not breach an automated data processing system's protective means, access it without permission, or use rights granted to another person to access it, where doing so causes substantial harm; whether an ordinary, unauthenticated page with no such protective means falls outside the without-permission ground is untested.
- Do not modify, damage, destroy, impair, or conceal information in an automated data processing system without authorization, or knowingly enter false information into it, per Section 243.
- Do not manufacture, adapt, distribute, acquire, transport, or store a tool, device, software, password, or access code intended to influence such a system's resources, or to gain unauthorized access to it for committing a crime, per Section 244.