LatviaAutortiesību likums (Copyright Act), Chapter XI.1, Website Access Restriction Orders
In force since .
A notice and action rule binding private bodies.
- Obligation class
- Access restriction
As of .
What it requires
- When the National Electronic Mass Media Council asks you, as a content provider or hosting service provider, to prove your right to make works public on a website, submit the documents within seven days or stop making the works public.
- If the Council decides that you must stop making works public, stop within seven days, because the Council may otherwise restrict access to the website in Latvia.
Who enforces it
Enforcement body
National Electronic Mass Media Council (Nacionālā elektronisko plašsaziņas līdzekļu padome), which decides on stopping unlawful publication and on restricting access to websites; the Administrative District Court hears appeals.
What this law does
Article 71.1 of the Copyright Act has the National Electronic Mass Media Council, acting as supervisory authority under the Information Society Services Act, protect rights holders online, including by restricting access to websites that make works public without the rights holder's consent.
Article 71.4(1) requires the Council, after receiving a rights holder's application, to ask the content provider or hosting service provider to submit within seven days documents proving its right to make the works public on the website. Article 71.4(3) has the Council decide that the content provider or hosting service provider must stop making the works public within seven days if it does not stop, does not submit the documents, or cannot be reached.
Article 71.5(1) lets the Council decide to restrict access to a website in Latvia if the unlawful publication has not stopped and no documents proving the right to publish were submitted in time, and it finds that the website obviously infringes copyright or related rights. Article 71.6 allows an appeal against the Council's decisions to the Administrative District Court, and the appeal does not suspend them.
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