Sufficient licence | THE Opinion

"The Publishers Association ­lobbied hard against a limited text and data mining exception in the UK. It is hard to see this continued lobbying in Europe as anything more than an attempt to provide already well-rewarded publishers with an additional revenue stream based on papers authored and peer-reviewed for free by the research community. There is no justification for extra licences and payments. The EU is right to ensure that if one has legal access to material online, then one has the right to mine it."