SudanCopyright Act, Computer-Readable Databases as Compilations
Copyright Act, 2013 (Sudan), arts. 5(2)(d) and 34
In force.
A database right rule binding public and private bodies.
- Obligation class
- Licensing
- Audit expectation
- none
What it requires
- Do not reproduce a computer-readable database whose selection or arrangement of contents is original, without the compiler's authorization.
- A database's individual data points are not protected merely by inclusion in an original compilation, so copying an individual fact from it is not itself addressed by this Act.
- A lawful possessor of a computer program may make only one backup copy of it, for use if the original is lost or damaged.
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
General infringement of a right protected by the Act (art. 64) is punished by imprisonment not exceeding two years or a fine, or both (art. 66(1)); no monetary fine amount is stated in the text of the Act itself.
What it makes you log
Logging duty
Article 5(2)(d) extends protection to computer-readable databases that are original in selection or arrangement, and article 34 allows a lawful possessor of a program one copy for use if the original is lost or damaged. Neither article requires anyone to create, keep, produce or review a log or record. The Act's record provisions concern the Council's own accounts (article 60) and its registry, not a duty on a user or a licensee, and the Act has no territorial clause for these articles.
- Kind
- None
- As of
What this law does
Article 5(2) extends the Act's copyright protection, without prejudice to the protection of an original work's own author, to derivative works including translations, adaptations, summaries and other transformations, collections of protected or unprotected works, publications of literary, artistic and scientific works, and computer-readable or other databases, on condition that the derivative work is itself original in the selection or arrangement of its contents.
A database whose selection or arrangement of contents is not original draws no protection under this provision, and the individual data points within an otherwise-protected database are not themselves protected merely because the compilation is. Article 34 separately lets a person in lawful possession of a computer program make one copy of that program for use in place of the original if the original copy is lost or damaged.
The text of the Act states no day on which it comes into force, and no Gazette notice or commencement order for it has been located.
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