Duty LXD-0161
Crawls the web, in Qatar
Copyright Protection Law, exceptions to copyrightsince 1 line
Law No. 7 of 2002, arts. 18, 20-21 · Read the law's page
- A reproduction or adaptation of a protected work for automated collection or model training must fit within the Law's narrow permitted-use list (personal use, non-profit teaching illustration, or adapting a lawfully-held copy of a computer program); Qatar has no text-and-data-mining exception, so bulk ingestion of copyrighted text for training does not fit these categories and requires the author's authorisation.
Copyright Protection Law, database and excluded subject mattersince 2 lines
Law No. 7 of 2002, arts. 3(3), 4 · Read the law's page
- A database or compilation is protected by copyright only if the selection or arrangement of its contents is creative; scraping data from a compilation that is not creatively selected or arranged does not infringe a copyright interest in the compilation itself, since Qatar has no sui generis database right.
- Bare facts, ideas, procedures, mathematical concepts, and daily news of a mere informatory nature are excluded from copyright protection, so reproducing them as such does not by itself infringe copyright, though a creative derivative expression of them is still protected.
Cybercrime Prevention Law, unauthorised accessin force2 lines
Law No. 14 of 2014 (Cybercrime Prevention Law), arts. 2-4 · Read the law's page
- Do not intentionally and illegally access, exceed authorised access to, or knowingly continue accessing a Qatar-based website, information system, or information network once aware the access is unauthorised; a violation reaching a system belonging to a state authority or affiliated corporation carries a doubled penalty.
- Do not unlawfully capture, intercept, or spy on traffic data or data being transmitted through an information network while crawling or collecting it.