Saudi ArabiaCopyright Law, exceptions article and absence of a text-and-data-mining exception
Royal Decree No. M/41, Art. 15 exceptions, no text-and-data-mining exception (2 Rajab 1424H, )
A copyright and text and data mining (TDM) rule binding public and private bodies.
What it requires
- Do not rely on the Copyright Law's Article 15 exceptions (personal use, quotation, education, and similar narrow uses) to reproduce a Saudi-copyrighted work for training an AI or machine-learning model; none of them reaches that use.
These lines are LexLint's reading of the law's text.
What this law does
Article 15 lists twelve enumerated uses of a copyrighted work that are lawful without the copyright owner's permission. The first of them is personal use, excluding computer software and audio-visual works; others include quotation with attribution and educational use. The Copyright Law published in the Official Gazette on replaces this Law under its Article 59.
When LexLint raises it
When your app profile says your app crawls the web or trains models.
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