Vote on copyright will not deliver on text and data mining - Science|Business

"Earlier in June the European Parliament passed a vote on recommendations for amending copyright law, agreeing to a much-debated text and data mining element of the European Commission’s proposal for EU copyright reform. But while some provision on text and data mining has been allowed, the vote is nowhere near strong enough. The final text was neutered, believes Kurt Deketelaere, secretary-general of the League of European Research Universities (LERU). 'The mandatory exception for text and data mining - which several MEPs suggested in their amendments - has now been reduced to the need, ‘to properly assess the enablement of automated analytical techniques for text and data’,' Deketelaere said ..."