GabonLoi n°1/87, protection des recueils et compilations
In force since .
A database right rule binding public and private bodies.
- Obligation class
- Access restriction, Attribution
- Audit expectation
- none
What it requires
- Do not reproduce a collection or database whose choice or arrangement of contents is an original intellectual creation without the rightsholder's authorization; Gabon has no sui generis database right, so an unoriginal, purely factual collection is not itself protected.
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
- AIR-DET-013Providing Citations and Source Traceability for AI-Generated Information
- 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
Infringement of a protected work is punished under the Penal Code's provisions on literary and artistic property, referred to rather than stated in this law itself, so no specific fine amount is established here.
Who enforces it
Enforcement body
Agence Nationale de Promotion Artistique et Culturelle (ANPAC); ordinary civil and criminal courts
Settledness
- As of
- Open questions
- Does a compilation of facts or data, rather than of works, come within article 5, which protects as original works only those collections of works, such as encyclopedias or anthologies, that by their choice or arrangement of the materials "constituent des creations intellectuelles" ("constitute intellectual creations")?
What it makes you log
Logging duty
Article 5 protects a collection or compilation as a work where the choice or arrangement of its contents is an intellectual creation, and article 88 refers infringement to the Penal Code. 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
Loi n°1/87 protects a collection of literary or artistic works, such as an encyclopedia or anthology, as an original work only where the choice or arrangement of its contents constitutes an intellectual creation; the text does not name a database specifically, so an unoriginal, purely factual database or compilation of data is not itself protected against reproduction and Gabon has no separate sui generis database right.
Reproducing a protected work without authorization is illicit and is punished under the Penal Code's provisions on literary and artistic property, with no specific fine amount stated in this law itself.
When LexLint raises it
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