LaosLaw on Intellectual Property, Copyright Exceptions and Data Compilations
Law on Intellectual Property No. 50/NA (), arts. 103, 113
In force since .
A copyright and text and data mining (TDM) rule binding public and private bodies.
- Audit expectation
- none
What it requires
- Laos has no text-and-data-mining exception; reproducing a copyrighted Lao-hosted work for crawling or AI training relies only on the general fair-use exception for quotation, teaching, research or press reporting, subject to a fair-practice and purpose-justified extent test and a source-and-author attribution duty.
- Do not rely on the fair-use exception where reproduction is obtained by circumventing a technological protection measure or removing rights-management information.
- A collection or compilation of data is protected only for its selection or arrangement where that is itself an intellectual creation; the underlying data or material is not protected by this Law.
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.
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What it makes you log
Logging duty
Article 103 protects compilations of data as literary works for the selection or arrangement of their contents, not the data themselves, and Article 113 lists the acts permitted without the owner's consent as fair use. It imposes no duty to create, keep, produce or review a log or record. Neither article carries a territorial clause. The Law's separate provisions on recording a copyright notification with the Ministry (Article 97) are not part of this row.
- Kind
- None
- As of
What this law does
Article 113 permits, without the copyright owner's consent, quotations from a lawfully published work compatible with fair use and not exceeding what the purpose justifies, including quotations from newspaper and periodical articles in the form of press summaries, and separately permits reproduction of newspaper and periodical articles on current economic, political or religious topics by the press, broadcasting or wire, and reproduction of works seen or heard while reporting a current event, each subject to a fair-use and source-indication test.
Laos has no text-and-data-mining exception distinct from this general fair-use ground, and Article 113 expressly does not apply to reproduction that requires circumventing a technological protection measure or removing rights-management information, so reproducing copyrighted Lao-hosted content for crawling or AI training rests only on the general fair-use ground and does not reach content behind a defeated technical measure.
Article 103 protects a compilation of data or other material as a literary work only where the selection or arrangement of its contents is itself an intellectual creation, and states that protection does not extend to the data or material itself, so Laos confers no sui generis database right of the kind some jurisdictions grant to a compiler regardless of originality.
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