Duty LXD-0395
Trains models, in Namibia
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Copyright and Neighbouring Rights Protection Act 6 of 1994, Fair Dealing and Compilation Protectionsince 3 lines
Copyright and Neighbouring Rights Protection Act 6 of 1994, ss. 2, 15-16 · Read the law's page
- Confirm that any reproduction of a literary or musical work stays within what section 15's fair dealing exceptions actually allow (research or private study, criticism or review, or reporting a current event) before scraping, storing, or redistributing that content at scale.
- Treat a scraped table or compilation as a protected literary work like any other, since Namibia extends copyright to tables and compilations rather than providing a separate database right; assembling a compilation by scraping copies protected structure and content the same way copying a passage of prose would.
- Do not rely on a text-and-data-mining-specific exception or a machine-readable opt-out signal to justify training on Namibian-sourced copyrighted text, since the Act provides neither; any such use has to fit within the general fair dealing exceptions in section 15.
Draft Artificial Intelligence Billproposed0 lines
Draft AI Bill (Ministry of Information and Communication Technology; National AI Strategy Framework consultations led by NCRST underway as of August 2026; not yet tabled in Parliament)