It’s crunch time for the future of Europe’s Artificial Intelligence – Europe needs a mandatory TDM exception

"Early next week may be the final days when the whole debate around the overhaul of copyright rules in Europe is over. And between cancelled trilogue meetings, failed Council Presidency compromises and rejected Parliament mandates, a lot has happened since the European Commission initially proposed its copyright reform back in September 2016.

Ever since, we have been advocating for a broad, mandatory Text and Data Mining (TDM) exception (Article 3), a process that is critical to the development of Artificial Intelligence (AI)."