Duty LXD-0402
Trains models, in New Zealand
Copyright Act 1994, Fair Dealing and No Text-and-Data-Mining Exceptionsince 1 line
Copyright Act 1994 (NZ), No 143, ss. 2, 42, 43 · Read the law's page
- A use of a work is not infringing if it is fair dealing for criticism or review (with sufficient acknowledgement) or for reporting current events, or fair dealing for research or private study; training an AI model on copyrighted text does not fit either purpose as such, and no text-and-data-mining exception is available.
Crimes Act 1961, Accessing a Computer System Without Authorisationsince 2 lines
Crimes Act 1961 (NZ), No 43, s. 252 · Read the law's page
- Do not intentionally access, directly or indirectly, a computer system without authorisation, knowing or being reckless as to whether you are authorised to access it.
- Accessing a public, unauthenticated page has not itself been held to violate this section, since the offence does not extend to a person authorised to access a system who merely uses that access for an unintended purpose.
Privacy Act 2020, Reach Over Scraped Personal Informationsince 2 lines
Privacy Act 2020 (NZ), No 31, ss. 4, 7, 22 (IPP 1, 2) · Read the law's page
- Do not collect personal information, including personal information scraped from a public website, unless it is for a lawful purpose connected with a function or activity of your organisation and the collection is necessary for that purpose.
- Collecting personal information other than directly from the individual, including by scraping, is excused from the source-of-collection principle where the source is a publicly available publication, but the information remains subject to every other duty the Act imposes.