Duty LXD-0131
Crawls the web, in Myanmar
Each law's tag says when it binds: since in force from a date not yet set not yet in force
Electronic Transactions Law, unauthorized interference and interception offencessince 3 lines
Electronic Transactions Law (State Peace and Development Council Law No. 5/2004, as amended by Law No. 6/2014), s. 34 · Read the law's page
- Do not dishonestly hack, modify, alter, destroy, or steal another person's electronic record, electronic data message, or computer programme.
- Do not intercept a communication within a computer network, or give any person access to the contents of a communication, without the permission of both the originator and the addressee.
- Reading a public, unauthenticated page without defeating a technical access control or intercepting a communication has not itself been held to violate this section.
Copyright Law, compilation protection with no sui generis database rightfrom a date not yet set2 lines
Copyright Law (Pyidaungsu Hluttaw Law No. 15/2019), s. 15, s. 24 · Read the law's page
- Myanmar protects only the selection or arrangement of a compilation of data as an intellectual creation; the contents of the collection are not themselves protected and carry no sui generis database right.
- Reproducing the whole or a substantial part of a database in digital form requires the right holder's authorization; it is not covered by the Law's personal-use exception.
Copyright Law, reproduction exceptions and computer programme adaptationfrom a date not yet set3 lines
Copyright Law (Pyidaungsu Hluttaw Law No. 15/2019), ss. 18, 24, 26, 27, 29, 30 · Read the law's page
- Myanmar's Copyright Law carries no text-and-data-mining exception and no machine-readable opt-out mechanism.
- Reproducing a work beyond the Law's named exceptions (personal use excluding a whole or substantial database or book, quotation with attribution, teaching purposes, current-events reporting) requires the right holder's authorization.
- A lawfully owned copy of a computer programme may only be reproduced or adapted for the purpose for which it was obtained, for archival back-up, or to replace a lost or destroyed copy, and any such copy must be destroyed once lawful possession ends.