The Limits of Copyright: Text and Data Mining - Creative Commons

abernard102@gmail.com 2015-01-23

Summary:

"Today’s topic is about supporting fair use, a legal doctrine in the United States and a few other countries that permits some uses of copyrighted works without the author’s permission for purposes such as parody, criticism, teaching, and news reporting. Fair use is an important check on the exclusive bundle of rights granted to authors under copyright law. Fair use is considered a “limitation and exception” to copyright. One area of particular importance within limitations and exceptions to copyright is the practice of text and data mining. Text and data mining typically consists of computers analyzing huge amounts of text or data, and has the potential to unlock huge swaths of interesting connections between textual and other types of content. Understanding these new connections can enable new research capabilities that result in novel scholarly discoveries and critical scientific breakthroughs. Because of this, text and data mining is increasingly important for scholarly research. Recently the United Kingdom enacted legislation specifically excepting noncommercial text and data mining from copyright. And as the European Commission conducts their review of EU copyright rules, some groups have called for the addition of a specific text and data mining exception. Copyright for Creativity’s manifesto, released Monday, urges the European Commission to add a new exception for text and data mining, in order to support new uses of technology and user needs. Another view holds that text and data mining activities should be considered outside the purview of copyright altogether ..."

Link:

http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/44748

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Tags:

oa.new oa.comment oa.copyright_week oa.advocacy oa.copyright oa.licensing oa.fair_use oa.mining oa.libre

Date tagged:

01/23/2015, 09:04

Date published:

01/23/2015, 04:04