LiberiaLiberia Intellectual Property Act, 2016, database compilation and private-copy exclusion (§§ 9.3, 9.4, 9.10)
In force.
A database right rule binding public and private bodies.
- 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 the whole or a substantial part of it without the rights holder's authorization, even where the reproduction would otherwise qualify as a permitted private copy.
- Do not rely on a text-and-data-mining or general research exception when reproducing a protected work or database for training or analysis purposes; the Act states none.
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
Who enforces it
Settledness
- As of
- Open questions
- When does a compilation of data "by reason of the selection or arrangement of their contents" "constitute intellectual creations" under Section 9.3(a)(iv) of the Liberia Intellectual Property Act, 2016, where a crawler assembles the compilation and orders it by an automated process?
- What is "a substantial part of a database in digital form" under Section 9.10(b)(ii), and does repeated extraction of small parts over time reach it?
What it makes you log
Logging duty
Section 9.3 protects a compilation of data for the selection or arrangement of its contents, section 9.4 lists what is not protected, and section 9.10 permits a private copy but not of the whole or a substantial part of a database in digital form. It imposes no duty to create, keep, produce or review a log or record. The cited sections carry no territorial clause.
- Kind
- None
- As of
What this law does
Liberia's Intellectual Property Act of 2016 protects a compilation of data or other material as a copyright work where its selection or arrangement constitutes an intellectual creation, but that protection does not extend to the underlying data or material itself. Liberia has no separate sui generis database right of the European kind.
The Act's private-reproduction exception, which otherwise permits a single copy of a published work for personal use, expressly does not extend to the whole or a substantial part of a database in digital form. The Act contains no text-and-data-mining exception and no AI-training-specific carve-out. The Act provides that it takes effect immediately upon publication into handbills. No handbill or other official record of the day of that publication has been located.
When LexLint raises it
When your app profile says your app crawls the web or trains models.
Back to the example · Lint your app
Page updated .