Crawls the web, in Mauritius

Copyright Act 2014 (Act No. 2 of 2014), ss. 16-22, 56 (limitations on economic rights, and offences) · Read the law's page

• Do not reproduce, adapt or communicate a substantial part of a copyrighted work to the public beyond the narrow private-use, quotation, research, teaching, library, or current-events exceptions in sections 16 to 22.
• There is no text-and-data-mining exception; training on scraped copyrighted text must fit within one of the existing narrow exceptions, most plausibly the section 19 ground for scientific research or teaching illustration, or risk criminal liability under section 56.

Copyright Act 2014 (Act No. 2 of 2014), ss. 18, 21 (quotation, and reproduction, broadcasting and other communication to the public for informatory purposes) · Read the law's page

• You may reproduce in a newspaper or periodical, or broadcast or otherwise communicate to the public, an article published in a newspaper or periodical on current economic, political or religious topics, unless the author or owner has expressly reserved that right on the copies or in connection with the broadcast (s. 21).
• You may reproduce and broadcast short excerpts of a work seen or heard in reporting current events, to the extent that purpose justifies (s. 21).
• Indicate the source and the author's name, so far as practicable, for each use under section 21.
• You may quote from a lawfully published work, compatibly with fair practice, only for the purpose of caricature, parody or pastiche (s. 18).

Cybersecurity and Cybercrime Act 2021 (Act No. 16 of 2021), Part III (ss. 7-13, unauthorised access and related offences) · Read the law's page

• Do not gain unauthorised access to any program or data held in a computer system, that is, access you are not entitled to control and have not been authorised to make.
• Reading a public, unauthenticated page without defeating any access control has not been confirmed either way against this section by a Mauritian court.