Crawls the web, in Pakistan

Copyright Ordinance 1962, s. 57 (fair dealing) · Read the law's page

• Do not rely on a general fair use or text-and-data-mining exception to reproduce or train on copyrighted literary, dramatic, musical or artistic works gathered from Pakistan; section 57 of the Copyright Ordinance 1962 permits reproduction only for a closed list of purposes, none of which is text or data mining.

Prevention of Electronic Crimes Act 2016, ss. 3, 5 and 6 (Act No. XL of 2016) · Read the law's page

• Do not access an information system or data in Pakistan that is not available to the general public without authorization, or in violation of the terms and conditions of an authorization already granted; unauthorized access is a criminal offence under section 3 of the Prevention of Electronic Crimes Act 2016, and a more heavily punished one under section 6 where the system is critical infrastructure.
• Do not interfere with, damage, or disrupt an information system or data in Pakistan without authorization, which section 5 of the Act separately punishes.

Copyright Ordinance 1962, s. 3(3) (compilation copyright) · Read the law's page

• Extracting the underlying data or material from a Pakistani compilation, without reproducing the compiler's own selection or arrangement of it, does not by itself infringe the compilation's copyright under section 3(3) of the Copyright Ordinance 1962; no sui generis database right exists here.

Draft Bill, introduced 2023

• This measure is proposed and binds nobody yet; what follows is what it would require if it is enacted in this form.
• Obtain consent before collecting personal data.