AlgeriaOrdonnance n° 03-05, protection des bases de données
Ordonnance n° 03-05 du 19 juillet 2003, art. 5 (bases de données)
In force since .
A database right rule binding public and private bodies.
- Obligation class
- Access restriction
- Audit expectation
- none
What it requires
- Do not reproduce a database whose choice or arrangement of contents is an original creation without the rightsholder's authorization; Algeria has no sui generis database right, so an unoriginal, purely factual database is not itself protected.
- Do not rely on the private-use exception for a digital-form reproduction of a database; that exception expressly excludes it.
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-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-018Agent Authority Least Privilege Framework
- AIR-PREV-023Agentic System Credential Protection Framework
- ETSI EN 304 223
- 5.1.2-6Access the AI system gets to other systems and data sources is minimal and risk assessed.
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
Criminal exposure note
Reproducing, importing, exporting, selling, or otherwise circulating an infringing copy of a protected work or database is contrefaçon, punishable by six months to three years' imprisonment and a fine of 500,000 to 1,000,000 DA (art. 153), doubled on recidivism (art. 156).
Penalty structure
Art. 153's fine range for the délit de contrefaçon is 500,000 to 1,000,000 DA, alongside six months to three years' imprisonment; doubled on recidivism under art. 156.
- Rule
- Fixed only
- As of
- Currency
- DZD
- Fixed cap
- 1,000,000
Who enforces it
Enforcement body
Office national des droits d'auteur et des droits voisins; ordinary civil and criminal courts
Settledness
- As of
- Open questions
- When does 'le choix ou la disposition des matières' make a database 'des créations originales' under article 5 of Ordonnance n° 03-05, so that extracting its contents without authorization is a contrefaçon?
What it makes you log
Logging duty
Article 5 protects a database as a work only where the choice or arrangement of its contents is original, article 41 leaves the digital reproduction of a database outside the private-use exception, and article 153 punishes counterfeiting. These provisions state rights, an exception and a penalty. They impose no duty to create, keep, produce or review a log or record, and they carry no territorial clause.
- Kind
- None
- As of
What this law does
Ordonnance n° 03-05 relative aux droits d'auteur et aux droits voisins protects a database as an original composite work only where the choice or arrangement of its contents constitutes an original creation, the same standard it applies to a collection or anthology of works; Algeria has no separate sui generis database right. Its private-use exception, which otherwise allows a single copy for personal or family use, expressly excludes the digital-form reproduction of a database. Reproducing or communicating a protected work or database without authorization is punishable as contrefaçon.
When LexLint raises it
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