BurundiLaw No. 1/021 of December 30, 2005 on the Protection of Copyright and Related Rights, database and facts exclusions
In force since .
A database right rule binding public and private bodies.
- Obligation class
- Attribution
- Audit expectation
- none
What it requires
- Treat a database compiled through the selection or arrangement of its contents as a protected work: do not reproduce all or a substantial part of it without the rights holder's authorization, even for otherwise-permitted private use.
- Rely only on the Law's enumerated exceptions rather than a general fair-use or text-and-data-mining defense when quoting, analyzing, or reproducing a protected work: a quotation compatible with fair practice, a press review, or current-events reporting, each requiring source and author credit, and none framed as covering AI training.
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-10Intellectual Property
- MIT mitigations Draft
- 3.2Data Governance
- FINOS AIGF
- AIR-PREV-007Legal and Contractual Frameworks for AI Systems
- AIR-DET-013Providing Citations and Source Traceability for AI-Generated Information
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
Who enforces it
Settledness
- As of
- Open questions
- Does a collection of data assembled by automated collection count as "collections of works and data in machine-readable or other form which, by reason of the selection, organization or arrangement of their contents, are original" under Article 5(b), or does Article 7(b) leave it unprotected as "mere data"?
- Does the Article 7(a) exclusion of "daily news published, broadcast or communicated in public" remove copyright from the text of a news article itself, or only from the news it reports?
What it makes you log
Logging duty
Article 7 excludes facts and mere data from copyright and Article 26(1) lists uses permitted without the author's consent, including quotation compatible with fair practice with the source and author named. They impose no duty to create, keep, produce or review a log or record.
- Kind
- None
- As of
What this law does
Burundi's copyright statute treats a database as a protected compilation rather than through a separate sui generis database right. Article 26(1)(a)'s private-copy exception expressly excludes reproducing all or major parts of a database in digital format, meaning a database is a protected work whose substantial reproduction the rights holder can otherwise prevent; there is no separate sui generis database right of the EU kind.
Article 7 excludes official texts, daily news, and mere facts and data from copyright protection outright.
Article 26 also lets a person quote a lawfully published work, including newspaper articles and periodicals in the form of press summaries, and reproduce a current-events news article or broadcast subject to source attribution, unless publication was accompanied by an express reservation against such use; none of these exceptions is framed as a text-and-data-mining carve-out, and nothing in the Law addresses AI training specifically.
When LexLint raises it
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