IranElectronic Commerce Law, Copyright in Digital Works Chapter
Electronic Commerce Law (2003), Arts. 62-63 (copyright in digital works) and Art. 74 (penalty)
In force.
A copyright and text and data mining (TDM) rule binding public and private bodies.
- Audit expectation
- none
What it requires
- Do not copy, perform, distribute, supply or publish a copyrighted electronic data message without the author's permission.
- A temporary copy made only because it is an inevitable part of processing a data message on a network is exempt from that permission requirement.
- No exception in this Law covers copying for text-and-data-mining or AI-model training beyond that temporary, network-processing copy.
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.
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
If you get it wrong
Criminal exposureYes
Criminal exposure note
Violating the copyright chapter (Arts. 62-63) is corrective imprisonment of three months to one year or a fine of up to 50,000,000 Rials (Art. 74).
Penalty structure
Fine only; Article 74 also allows corrective imprisonment of three months to one year instead of the fine.
- Rule
- Fixed only
- As of
- Currency
- IRR
- Fixed cap
- 50,000,000
What it makes you log
Logging duty
Articles 62 and 63 apply the Iranian copyright laws to a work in the form of a data message and exempt temporary acts of copying that are an inevitable part of processing a data message on networks, and article 74 sets the penalty. They impose no duty to create, keep, produce or review a log or record, and state no territorial clause. The Law's separate provisions on retaining data messages are other articles, not cited by this row.
- Kind
- None
- As of
What this law does
Article 62 extends the copyright regime of the Act on Protection of Authors, Composers and Artists Rights (1970), the 1973 translation-and-reproduction law and the 2000 computer-software-producers law to a work in the form of an electronic 'data message', so the right to copy, perform, distribute, supply and publish such a work belongs exclusively to the author.
Article 63 exempts a temporary act of copying, performing or distributing a work where that act is an inevitable part of processing the data message on a network, a caching-style exception that is not conditioned on the copy being made for training or for any other stated purpose. Article 74 makes violating the copyright chapter an offence carrying corrective imprisonment of three months to one year or a fine of up to 50,000,000 Rials.
Neither Article 62 nor Article 63 states a text-and-data-mining-specific rule or an AI-training carve-out; the underlying 1970 Act's own quotation exception (Art. 7, recorded under the aggregation topic for this jurisdiction) is a closed list that reaches no data-mining purpose. None of the Law's 81 articles states a day on which it comes into force. Under Article 2 of the Civil Code a law takes effect throughout the country fifteen days after its publication unless it provides otherwise. No notice stating the resulting day for this Law has been located.
When LexLint raises it
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