DSM Directive Art. 4(3): text-and-data-mining reservations

The general text-and-data-mining exception applies only where rightholders have not expressly reserved use in an appropriate manner, such as machine-readable means for content made publicly available online

By Jorge García Aibar Reviewed 2026-09-24

From clause to evidence Build the artefact, then file every output it produces as a record that names AIGE-OBL-DSM-ART4-3. Drawn from chapter 08.

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Clause: DSM Directive, Art. 4.
Duty holder: Anyone mining works, incl.….
Applies from: 2021-06-07, In force.
Artefact: Crawler policy-as-code honouring reservations.
Layers: Layer 01, Layer 02.
Evidence record: Evidence record v1.
Record schema: Evidence record.
No crosswalk topic files this clause yet.

When this obligation applies The first date in the row's status, then each later step: filled once its date has passed, outlined while it is still ahead of the review date.

Data table: the dates

Dates of AIGE-OBL-DSM-ART4-3
Date	Step	Detail
2021-06-07	In force	Transposition deadline 2021-06-07

Id: AIGE-OBL-DSM-ART4-3
Instrument: Directive (EU) 2019/790 on copyright in the Digital Single Market law
Clause: Art. 4(3)
In scope: Anyone mining works, incl. model developers
Authority: National courts
Applies from: 2021-06-07 In force · Transposition deadline 2021-06-07

The artefact that evidences it

Crawler policy-as-code honouring reservations; training-data rights ledger with the reservation-check result, method and date.

L1 Govern-as-Code
L2 Inventory & Transparency

What this obligation connects to Solid edges are direct relations, dashed ones looser (a case that cites the same article, a framework whose clauses only touch the topic); patterns and controls take the colour of their stack layer. Select a node to open it; the lists below give every relation in full.

Data table: every relation

Relations of AIGE-OBL-DSM-ART4-3
Family	Item	Relation
Patterns	Training-Data Rights Ledger	Direct
Open controls	AIGE-CTL-DATA-011 Rights Changes Propagated to Affected Models	Direct
Open controls	AIGE-CTL-DATA-003 Training-Data Rights Ledger Row per Source	Direct

Patterns that build it

Training-Data Rights Ledger (layer 2)

Open controls that evidence it

Draft controls in the open control profiles that map to this row: each states a requirement and the evidence it must leave behind.

AIGE-CTL-DATA-003 Training-Data Rights Ledger Row per Source (Data admission and privacy profile)
AIGE-CTL-DATA-011 Rights Changes Propagated to Affected Models (Data admission and privacy profile)

Source

Chapter 08, section Liability, copyright, consumer and sector law, checked against its sources on the review date above.

Machine-readable

This obligation: /api/v1/obligations/aige-obl-dsm-art4-3.json
The register: /api/v1/obligations.json · CSV
Schema and stability promise: open data and API

Cite this obligation

García Aibar, J. (2026). DSM Directive Art. 4(3): text-and-data-mining reservations (AIGE-OBL-DSM-ART4-3). In AI Governance Engineering: The Thesis & Body of Knowledge (v0.5.0). https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22956197. https://aigovernanceengineer.com/obligations/aige-obl-dsm-art4-3. CC BY 4.0

BibTeX

@misc{aige2026obligation,
  author       = {Jorge García Aibar},
  title        = {{DSM Directive Art. 4(3): text-and-data-mining reservations (AIGE-OBL-DSM-ART4-3)}},
  howpublished = {In AI Governance Engineering: The Thesis \& Body of Knowledge},
  year         = {2026},
  version      = {0.5.0},
  doi          = {10.5281/zenodo.22956197},
  url          = {https://aigovernanceengineer.com/obligations/aige-obl-dsm-art4-3},
  note         = {Version 0.5.0}
}