S.L. 415.8 Art. 5Text and data mining exception.

(1) Copyright in an audiovisual work, a database, a literary work, a musical or artistic work and the right sui generis accorded to the maker of a database as well as the press publishers right as provided in regulation 15(1), shall not include the right to authorise or prohibit reproductions and extractions of lawfully accessible works or other subject-matter for the purposes of text and data mining:

Provided that reproductions and extractions made pursuant to the preceding paragraph may be retained for as long as is necessary for the purposes of text and data mining;

(2) The exception provided for in sub-regulation (1), shall apply on condition that the use of works and other subject-matter referred to above may be expressly reserved by their rightholders in an appropriate manner, such as machine-readable means in the case of content made publicly available online.

(3) This regulation shall not affect the application of regulation 4.