EU to remove copyright obstacle to data mining | DigiAviisi

"The European Commission has proposed a mandatory exception for research in the European Union copyright legislation in order to give European researchers and innovators the explicit right to process on a large scale the content to which they have legal access. The exception is aimed at addressing the problems caused by the fragmented copyright regulations in Europe, in particular with regard to the use of advanced new technology known as Text and Data Mining or TDM. TDM is the accepted term but here it is synonymous with Content Mining, according to Science Europe, because it actually refers to a wide range of content, for instance including audio-visual material and texts, as well as data and metadata, on which a wide range of computerised searching, analysis and integration techniques is used. The lack of clarity around copyright and ownership of derived works, and the inadequacy of licensing solutions have resulted in researchers, especially those from public interest research organisations, being discouraged from using TDM techniques to analyse vast amounts of digital content, the European Commission says ..."