AzerbaijanCopyright and Related Rights Law, database exclusion and enforcement remedies
Law of the Republic of Azerbaijan On Copyright and Related Rights Law No. 115-IQ (, as amended through Law No. 817-VIQD of ), Arts. 17, 19, 24, 44-47
In force since .
A copyright and text and data mining (TDM) rule binding public and private bodies.
- Obligation class
- Licensing, TDM, Access restriction
- Audit expectation
- none
What it requires
- Reproducing a database, or a substantial part of one, for personal use is not exempted from the author's or database owner's consent the way reproducing an ordinary published work is.
- No exception in this Law permits reproducing copyrighted text or a database for the purpose of training an AI model.
- Do not eliminate a technical protection measure applied to a work or database without the right holder's permission.
These lines are LexLint's reading of the law's text.
In the frameworks
- NIST AI RMF
- MAP 4.1Approaches for mapping AI technology and legal risks of its components – including the use of third-party data or software – are in place, followed, and documented, as are risks of infringement of a third party’s intellectual property or other rights.
- NIST AI 600-1
- GAI-RISK-09Information Security
- GAI-RISK-10Intellectual Property
- GAI-RISK-12Value Chain and Component Integration
- OWASP LLM Top 10
- LLM03:2026Excessive Agency
- OWASP Agentic Top 10
- ASI03Identity and Privilege Abuse
- MIT mitigations Draft
- FINOS AIGF
- AIR-PREV-007Legal and Contractual Frameworks for AI Systems
- AIR-PREV-018Agent Authority Least Privilege Framework
- AIR-PREV-023Agentic System Credential Protection Framework
- ETSI EN 304 223
Our reading of where this law's duties sit in each framework. It never says that running a control meets the law. How we read a framework against the law
Identifiers refer to ETSI EN 304 223 V2.1.1 (2025-12), © ETSI 2025, all rights reserved. ETSI owns the standard; no ETSI text (titles or sentences) is reproduced here. The standard is free to download from ETSI.
If you get it wrong
Criminal exposureYes
Private right of actionYes
Criminal exposure note
Art. 47 is a bare reference to civil, administrative, and criminal responsibility under Azerbaijani legislation generally, with no fine amount or specific Criminal Code article named in this Law's own text.
Statutory damages
Art. 45.2(2): a court may award compensation of 110 to 55,000 manat in lieu of damage reimbursement or collecting the infringer's income. This is a single per-case range election available to the right holder, not a negligent/reckless tier structure or a strictly per-person amount.
- As of
- Currency
- AZN
- Per person minimum
- 110
Who enforces it
Enforcement body
Right holders, by application to the court (Art. 45.1); competent state bodies and collective management organizations may also demand that infringing acts cease (Art. 44.1).
Settledness
- As of
- Open questions
- Does a collection of lawfully published web pages assembled by a crawler count as a "database" within the Article 4 definition, which requires that "the selection and placement of components result from creative work", so that the Article 17.2 exclusion of "reproduction of databases or substantial parts thereof" applies to it?
- Does a transient copy that a crawler holds in memory count as "reproduction" under the Article 4 definition, which treats recording in electronic form "for temporary or permanent storage" as reproduction, so that the author's consent is needed for it?
What it makes you log
Logging duty
Articles 17, 19 and 24 allow personal copies, uses for information, teaching and research, and the copying and decompilation of computer programs and databases by their lawful holder, and Articles 44 to 47 set out how a rights holder enforces copyright. None of them imposes a duty to create, keep, produce or review a log or record. Article 24(2) requires a backup copy of a program or database to be destroyed when the holder's entitlement to the original ends, which concerns a copy of the work rather than a record.
- Kind
- None
- As of
What this law does
Art. 17 permits reproducing one copy of a lawfully published work for personal, non-profit use without consent or remuneration, but Art. 17.2 excludes several categories from this allowance, including the reproduction of databases or a substantial part of one, reproduction of computer programs (subject to Art. 24's own exception), and reprographic reproduction of whole books.
Art. 19 permits, without consent or remuneration but with mandatory attribution, short informational quotations and press-review use, and reproducing lawfully published articles on current affairs unless the author has prohibited it, but carries no text-and-data-mining exception for training a model on the reproduced text.
Art. 24 lets a person lawfully possessing computer software or a database modify it, and make an archival or working copy, without the author's consent, but this is a narrow lawful-possessor exception rather than a general mining or scraping right. Art. 44.3(a) separately forbids eliminating a technical protection measure without the right holder's permission.
Art. 47 makes an infringement give rise to civil, administrative, and criminal responsibility under Azerbaijani legislation generally, without stating an amount or naming a specific provision in this Law's own text, and Art. 45.2(2) lets a court award the right holder compensation of 110 to 55,000 manat per case in lieu of proving actual damage or collecting the infringer's income.
When LexLint raises it
When your app profile says your app crawls the web or trains models.
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