Duty LXD-0150
Crawls the web, in Oman
Law on Copyright and Neighboring Rights, database compilations and absence of a sui generis rightsince 1 line
Royal Decree No. 65/2008, Arts. 2(b), 3(c), 4 · Read the law's page
- Do not assume a merely comprehensive, non-creatively-arranged Omani database is protected; only a compilation of data that is creative as to the selection or arrangement of its contents is a protected work, and only that selection or arrangement, not the underlying data itself, is protected.
Law on Copyright and Neighboring Rights, exceptions and absence of a text-and-data-mining exceptionsince 1 line
Royal Decree No. 65/2008, Arts. 4, 20 · Read the law's page
- Do not rely on the Law's Article 20 free-uses list (quotation for clarification or criticism, personal or educational use, or a single lawfully-owned computer-program copy) to reproduce Omani-copyrighted text for training an AI or machine-learning model; none of them reaches that use, and the Law has no text-and-data-mining exception.
Cybercrime Lawsince 2 lines
Royal Decree No. 12/2011
- Do not access information systems without authorization.
- Do not interfere with digital systems without authorization.
Personal Data Protection Law, reach over scraped public personal datasince 1 line
Royal Decree No. 6/2022, Arts. 2-3 and 10 bis, as amended by Royal Decree No. 68/2026 (formerly Art. 3(j)) · Read the law's page
- A scraper collecting the personal data of an individual in Oman from a public page may rely on Article 10 bis, item (b), only to skip the express consent that Article 10 otherwise requires; the Law still applies to that processing, and the data must be public in a manner that does not contravene the Law. A biometric identifier such as a faceprint or voiceprint derived from publicly posted photographs, video, or audio requires a Ministry permit under Art. 5 regardless of the recording's public availability.
Cybercrime Combat Law, unauthorized access to a website or information systemsince 2 lines
Royal Decree No. 61/2026, Art. 5 · Read the law's page
- Do not access, or remain on, a website, information system, or information-technology means in Oman without right, in excess of authorized access, or after becoming aware the access is unauthorized; a spurious raise costs a developer one read, so this is flagged even though the Law's text does not on its face require defeating a technical security measure to reach a public, unauthenticated page.
- Where such access alters, discloses, copies, or destroys data, or the data reached is personal data, the penalty escalates in two further tiers; treat any automated access that could plausibly change or expose data on the target system as carrying the higher exposure.