Dominican Republic
AI behavior law: bot and agent disclosure, crawler and training-data rules, automated-agent transactions, and algorithmic decision-making.
Summary
The Dominican Republic presents moderate crawling risk driven primarily by privacy law rather than computer crime or copyright. Ley 172-13 (2013) on personal data protection applies to any automated processing of personal data; scraping personal data from public sources requires a legal basis (Art. 27 provides a limited public-source exception but does not carte-blanche authorize mass collection). Ley 53-07 (2007) on High Technology Crimes criminalises unauthorised access to computer systems (Art. 5) and illegal interception of non-public transmissions (Art. 6); public-page scraping is not explicitly targeted. Ley 65-00 on Copyright protects original compilations/databases by originality of selection or arrangement but creates no EU-style sui generis right; underlying facts are free. No specific TDM copyright exception exists. No scraping-specific case law has been identified.
Automated-access legality
Carried forward from the crawler-law index. Governs whether automated clients may access public websites in this jurisdiction.
| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Authorization test | unsettled |
| Public-page carve-out | unsettled |
| Terms-of-service browsewrap enforceable | notice dependent |
| Terms-of-service clickwrap enforceable | yes |
| Copyright exception model | fair dealing narrow |
| Text and data mining — commercial status | unsettled |
| Text and data mining — opt-out mechanism | none |
| robots.txt legal weight | non binding notice |
| AI training-specific law | none |
| Privacy regime | Ley 172-13 (2013) |
| Trespass to chattels | not recognized |
Last reviewed: 2026-05-23. Confidence: medium. Not legal advice.