Duty LXD-0154
Crawls the web, in the Philippines
Each law's tag says when it binds: since in force proposed proposed
Intellectual Property Code, Fair Use of a Copyrighted Worksince 2 lines
Republic Act No. 8293 (1997), Section 185 · Read the law's page
- Weigh the purpose and character of a use of a copyrighted work, the nature of the work, the amount used, and the effect on the work's market before relying on fair use to reproduce it for training data or aggregation.
- Reproducing a computer program's code to achieve interoperability with another independently created program may also qualify as fair use.
Intellectual Property Code, Compilation of Data and the News-of-the-Day Exclusionsince 1 line
Republic Act No. 8293 (1997), Sections 172-173, 175 · Read the law's page
- Scraping or reproducing a database or compilation of facts is outside this Code's protection unless the selection, coordination, or arrangement of its contents is itself original; mere data and news of the day carry no protection regardless of arrangement.
Intellectual Property Code, News-of-the-Day Exclusion and Fair-Use Reproduction of Current Eventssince 4 lines
Republic Act No. 8293 (1997), Sections 175, 184 · Read the law's page
- You need not obtain permission to use news of the day or miscellaneous facts having the character of mere items of press information: section 175 excludes them from copyright protection.
- You may quote from a published work, including quotations from newspaper articles and periodicals in the form of press summaries, where compatible with fair use and you mention the source and the author's name (s. 184.1(b)).
- You may reproduce or communicate to the public by mass media an article on a current political, social, economic, scientific or religious topic, or a public address of the same nature, for information purposes, if you clearly indicate the source and the rightsholder has not expressly reserved the use (s. 184.1(c)).
- You may reproduce and communicate to the public a literary, scientific or artistic work as part of a report of current events, by photography, cinematography or broadcasting, to the extent necessary for that purpose (s. 184.1(d)).
NPC Advisory No. 2024-04: Guidelines on the Application of the Data Privacy Act to AI Systems Processing Personal Datasince 2 lines
NPC Advisory No. 2024-04 ()
- Complete a Privacy Impact Assessment before scraping personal data for AI training.
- Provide data subjects with transparency disclosures about the processing of their personal data.
Anti-Deepfake Personality Rights Protection Actproposed4 lines
House Bill No. 2312 (20th Congress)
- This measure is in committee and binds nobody yet; what follows is what it would require if it is enacted in this form.
- Do not create, disseminate, or commercially exploit deepfake content without authorization.
- Label synthetic media.
- Do not use a person's personal images in AI-generated content without their consent.
Artificial Intelligence Development Act / AI Development and Regulation Act (House ICT Committee consolidation)proposed0 lines
House Bill No. 7396 and related House ICT Committee deliberations (20th Congress, 2026)
Data Privacy Act of 2012, Application to Scraped Public Personal Datain force1 line
Republic Act No. 10173 (2012), Section 12 · Read the law's page
- An app scraping the publicly available personal data of an individual in the Philippines must still identify a lawful basis for processing that data under the Data Privacy Act; the data's public availability does not by itself supply the data subject's consent or any other lawful basis.
Cybercrime Prevention Act of 2012, Illegal Access, Interception, and Data Interferencein force2 lines
Republic Act No. 10175 (2012), Sections 4(a)(1)-(3), 8 · Read the law's page
- Do not access the whole or any part of a computer system without right, intercept a non-public transmission of computer data without right, or intentionally or recklessly alter, damage, delete, or deteriorate computer data without right.
- Reading a public, unauthenticated page without defeating any access control has not itself been held to fall within illegal access, illegal interception, or data interference.
Artificial Intelligence Regulation Act (AIRA)proposed5 lines
Senate Bill No. 25, 20th Congress (filed )
- This measure is in committee and binds nobody yet; what follows is what it would require if it is enacted in this form.
- Complete an algorithmic audit for high-risk AI systems.
- Complete an impact assessment for high-risk AI systems.
- Disclose to users when they are interacting with AI.
- Register AI systems.