Trains models, in Bulgaria
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Copyright and Neighbouring Rights Act (ZAPSP), Arts. 26e, 26zh and 26k, Text-and-Data-Mining Exception for Crawling and Trainingsince 2 lines
ZAPSP crawling-training TDM exception (Закон за авторското право и сродните му права, Zakon za avtorskoto pravo i srodnite mu prava), chl. 26e, 26zh i 26k, izm. i dop. DV br. 100 ot 1 dekemvri 2023 g. · Read the law's page
- Honor an express, machine-readable rights reservation before relying on the general text-and-data-mining exception to reproduce or extract a lawfully accessed work, per ZAPSP Article 26e(4).
- A university, library, or scientific research institute mining for scientific research is not subject to that opt-out, per Article 26zh.
Copyright and Neighbouring Rights Act (ZAPSP), Arts. 26e, 26zh and 26k, Text-and-Data-Mining Exception for News Aggregationsince 4 lines
ZAPSP news-aggregation TDM exception (Закон за авторското право и сродните му права, Zakon za avtorskoto pravo i srodnite mu prava), chl. 26e, 26zh i 26k, izm. i dop. DV br. 100 ot 1 dekemvri 2023 g. · Read the law's page
- You may reproduce a work you have lawful access to, including a press publication, or extract data from it, for automated text-and-data analysis without the rightsholder's consent.
- Before mining, check for a reservation: a rightsholder, including a press publisher, may reserve this use by technical means that the software performing the analysis can recognize, and for works available electronically the prohibition has effect only if so established.
- Honour that reservation; a news aggregator indexing press content must do so to remain within the exception.
- If you are a university, library or research institute mining for scientific research, a separate exception applies that does not depend on a reservation.
Законопроект за използването и развитието на изкуствения интелект (Bill on the Use and Development of Artificial Intelligence), No. 52-654-01-151proposed6 lines
Bill No. 52-654-01-151 of (Законопроект № 52-654-01-151), Fifty-Second National Assembly, Закон за използването и развитието на изкуствения интелект · Read the law's page
- This is a bill, not law: it was filed in the National Assembly on and has not been enacted. Read the lines below as what would apply if it is enacted as filed.
- Do not use remote biometric identification systems, and do not engage in the AI practices that Article 5 of Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 prohibits (Article 12(1), points 1 and 3).
- Do not publish on an online platform AI-generated content that is a convincing forgery in the name of a person in high public office or a state body, or in the name of another person where that person has not consented in advance (Article 15(1)).
- If a recommender system you operate is identified as high-risk for national security by the Council of Ministers, give the State Agency for National Security and the Ministry of Innovation and Digital Transformation without delay its source code and technical documentation, a description of its training data, its main model parameters and statistics on its results (Article 13(2)).
- Do not use children's personal data to train an AI model unless their parents or guardians consent and the model is a specialized one for children's education or pediatric innovation (Article 32).
- If you provide, import or distribute AI systems in Bulgaria, give a current telephone number when you register in the Commercial Register and hold a profile in the secure electronic delivery system (Article 11).
Draft Horizontal AI Act (proposed by 'Da, Bulgaria' parliamentary group, late 2025)proposed0 lines
Draft legislation, proposed by 'Da, Bulgaria' party, Bulgarian National Assembly, late 2025 — not yet enacted as of August 2026