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Copyright and Related Rights Act 2000 (No. 28 of 2000), Part V, ss. 320, 321, 325 · Read the law's page

• Do not extract or re-utilise all or a substantial part of the contents of a database in which a substantial investment (financial, human or technical) has been made in obtaining, verifying or presenting its contents, without the database right owner's authorisation (s. 321(1)-(2)).
• A substantial change to a database's contents amounting to a substantial new investment gives the resulting database its own fresh 15-year term (s. 325(3)).

Copyright and Related Rights Act 2000 (No. 28 of 2000), ss. 37, 39, 40, 50, 127 and 140 · Read the law's page

• Do not copy a work, make it available to the public or make an adaptation of it without the copyright owner's licence; storing a work in any medium and making copies that are transient or incidental to some other use of it count as copying (ss. 37(1), 37(2), 39(1)(a)).
• Making copies of a work available by wire or wireless means so that members of the public may access it from a place and at a time chosen by them, including through the Internet, is making it available to the public (s. 40(1)(a)).
• Fair dealing with a work for the purposes of research or private study does not infringe its copyright, but only where the use does not unreasonably prejudice the interests of the copyright owner (ss. 50(1), 50(4)).
• Do not, without the copyright owner's consent, hold in the course of a business, trade or profession, or make available to the public, a copy of a work that you know or have reason to believe is an infringing copy (s. 140(1)(d), (e)).

Criminal Justice (Offences Relating to Information Systems) Act 2017 (No. 11 of 2017), ss. 2-6, 8, 13 · Read the law's page

• Do not intentionally access an information system by infringing a security measure, without lawful authority or reasonable excuse (s. 2).
• Do not intentionally hinder or interrupt an information system, or delete, damage, alter, suppress or intercept data on it, without lawful authority (ss. 3-5).
• Do not produce, distribute or make available a computer programme, password, code or similar data designed for committing any of the section 2 to 5 offences (s. 6).
• Reading a public, unauthenticated page without defeating any access control has not itself been held to violate section 2.

European Union (Protection of Trade Secrets) Regulations 2018 (S.I. No. 188 of 2018), regs. 3, 5, 6, 14, 16 and 18 · Read the law's page

• Do not acquire a trade secret, without the holder's consent, by unauthorized access to, appropriation of, or copying of documents, objects, materials, substances or electronic files lawfully under the holder's control that contain the secret or from which it can be deduced (reg. 5(1)(a)).
• Do not acquire a trade secret, without the holder's consent, by any other conduct that, under the circumstances, is considered contrary to proper commercial practice (reg. 5(1)(b)).
• Do not use or disclose a trade secret, without the holder's consent, where you acquired it unlawfully, are in breach of a confidentiality agreement or other duty not to disclose it, or are in breach of a contractual or other duty to limit its use (reg. 5(2)).
• Acquiring a trade secret by observation, study, disassembly or testing of a product or object that has been made available to the public is considered lawful (reg. 3(1)(b)).

Copyright and Related Rights Act 2000 (No. 28 of 2000), ss. 2(1), 140(4) and 370(2) · Read the law's page

• Do not circumvent rights protection measures applied to a copyright work or database otherwise than with the agreement of the rightsowner or pursuant to section 374 (s. 370(2)(c)).
• Do not make, sell, import or hold a protection-defeating device knowing or having reason to believe it is to be used to circumvent rights protection measures, and do not provide information or perform a service intended to enable or assist others to circumvent them (ss. 370(2)(a), (b); 140(4)).

European Union (Copyright and Related Rights in the Digital Single Market) Regulations 2021 (S.I. No. 567 of 2021), regs. 3-4, inserting and amending ss. 53A and 53B of the Copyright and Related Rights Act 2000 · Read the law's page

• A commercial text-and-data-mining reproduction or extraction from a work you have lawful access to is permitted unless the rightholder has expressly reserved that use: in machine-readable form for content made available online, or clearly communicated to all persons with lawful access for other content (s. 53B(1), (3)).
• A reproduction made under the research and non-commercial text-and-data-mining exception must be stored in a secure manner appropriate to the work, and may be retained for the purposes of research, including verification of results (s. 53A(3A)).
• A contractual term that overrides the section 53A text-and-data-mining exception is unenforceable.