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Trains models, in Laos
Law on Intellectual Property, Copyright Exceptions and Data Compilationssince 3 lines
Law on Intellectual Property No. 50/NA (), arts. 103, 113 · Read the law's page
- Laos has no text-and-data-mining exception; reproducing a copyrighted Lao-hosted work for crawling or AI training relies only on the general fair-use exception for quotation, teaching, research or press reporting, subject to a fair-practice and purpose-justified extent test and a source-and-author attribution duty.
- Do not rely on the fair-use exception where reproduction is obtained by circumventing a technological protection measure or removing rights-management information.
- A collection or compilation of data is protected only for its selection or arrangement where that is itself an intellectual creation; the underlying data or material is not protected by this Law.
Law on Cyber Security, risk assessment, access control, encryption and network securitysince 4 lines
Law on Cyber Security (2025), arts. 25 to 28, risk assessment and security measures · Read the law's page
- As a legal person or organization operating in cyber security work in Laos, carry out a cyber security risk assessment covering your systems, data and important digital assets, and use the results to improve your security plan.
- Apply effective access control to your systems, granting users the least privilege.
- Encrypt important and sensitive data, both stored and in transit, with strong encryption.
- Secure your network with a firewall and an intrusion detection and prevention system.
Law on Cyber Security, incident response, incident reporting and annual reportsince 5 lines
Law on Cyber Security (2025), arts. 30, 31, 40, 43 and 44, incident response and reporting · Read the law's page
- As a legal person or organization operating in cyber security work in Laos, report a cyber security incident that causes damage to the unit responsible for cyber security immediately after discovering it.
- Develop and carry out a cyber emergency response plan.
- Use an effective system for detecting and analyzing cyber incidents.
- Submit an annual report on your cyber security situation and work, including the measures carried out and the incidents or threats that occurred and how they were resolved, to the Ministry of Technology and Communications.
- Cooperate with the investigating bodies, providing data, evidence and the system access they need, where a cyber security breach is a criminal offense.
Penal Code, Illegal Access to a Computer Systemin force2 lines
Penal Code No. 26/NA (), arts. 164-165 · Read the law's page
- Do not defeat a special protection system to access a computer system with intent to obtain commercial, financial or privately held data.
- Reading a public, unauthenticated page without defeating any special protection system has not itself been held to violate this provision.