Sao Tome and PrincipeDecreto-Lei n.º 02/2017, protecção de compilações e exclusão das notícias do dia
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A database right rule binding public and private bodies.
- Obligation class
- Access restriction, Attribution
- Audit expectation
- none
What it requires
- Do not reproduce a compilation, anthology, or systematic collection whose choice or arrangement of contents is itself an intellectual creation, without the rightsholder's authorization; Sao Tome and Principe has no sui generis database right, so an unoriginal, purely factual collection of data is not itself protected against reproduction.
- News of the day and reports of events disclosed as simple information are outside copyright protection and may be reproduced freely.
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.
- NIST AI 600-1
- GAI-RISK-09Information Security
- GAI-RISK-10Intellectual Property
- GAI-RISK-12Value Chain and Component Integration
- OWASP LLM Top 10
- LLM03:2026Excessive Agency
- OWASP Agentic Top 10
- ASI03Identity and Privilege Abuse
- MIT mitigations Draft
- FINOS AIGF
- AIR-PREV-007Legal and Contractual Frameworks for AI Systems
- AIR-PREV-018Agent Authority Least Privilege Framework
- AIR-PREV-023Agentic System Credential Protection Framework
- AIR-DET-013Providing Citations and Source Traceability for AI-Generated Information
- ETSI EN 304 223
- 5.1.2-6Access the AI system gets to other systems and data sources is minimal and risk assessed.
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
Identifiers refer to ETSI EN 304 223 V2.1.1 (2025-12), © ETSI 2025, all rights reserved. ETSI owns the standard; no ETSI text (titles or sentences) is reproduced here. The standard is free to download from ETSI.
If you get it wrong
Criminal exposureYes
Criminal exposure note
Article 197 punishes the offenses defined in the Code's preceding articles, which includes unauthorized reproduction of a protected compilation, with imprisonment of up to three years and a fine of 150 to 250 days, doubled on a repeated offense; negligence is punishable with a fine of 50 to 150 days. Article 199 punishes selling, offering for sale, importing, exporting, or otherwise distributing a counterfeit or usurped work with the same penalties.
Who enforces it
Enforcement body
Direcção-Geral da Cultura and the Ministério da Cultura (public-domain works); ordinary civil and criminal courts
What it makes you log
Logging duty
Article 3(1)(b) treats anthologies and compilations of works that by their choice or arrangement of the matter are intellectual creations as equated to originals (English: summaries and compilations of protected or unprotected works, such as selections, encyclopedias and anthologies, that by the choice or arrangement of their matter constitute intellectual creations), and article 7(1)(a) excludes news of the day and reports of events disclosed as simple information from protection. Neither article imposes a duty to create, keep, produce or review a log or record, and article 197 only punishes infringement. Neither states a territorial reach, so no hook is recorded.
- Kind
- None
- As of
What this law does
Article 3(1)(b) protects summaries and compilations of works, whether protected or not, such as collections, encyclopaedias, and anthologies, as original works only where the choice or arrangement of their contents constitutes an intellectual creation, and article 3(1)(c) extends the same standard to systematic or annotated compilations of official texts (conventions, laws, regulations, and administrative or judicial decisions).
The Code names no database as such and creates no separate sui generis right in an unoriginal, purely factual collection of data, so a compilation that is not itself an original creation is not protected against reproduction under this article. Article 7(1)(a) additionally excludes news of the day and reports of various events disclosed merely as simple information from copyright protection altogether, whatever their protected status otherwise.
Infringing a protected compilation is punished under the Code's own penalty provisions (article 197), which punish, with the same terms, unauthorized use of a counterfeit or usurped work under article 199. Article 229 puts the Code into force on the date of its publication, which the Diário da República issue carrying it dates to .
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