Copyright: making EU rules work for science, research and innovation | European Commission

"Text and data mining, or TDM, is an emerging and important tool. But it is developing only slowly, mainly due to legal uncertainty caused by today's copyright rules.

Since TDM can involve reproducing works or extracting content from a database, this may require authorisation from rights holders.

However, researchers often do not know their legal position for whether - and under which conditions - they can carry out TDM on content to which they already have lawful access, like subscriptions to scientific publications....To sum up: Europe could be doing much more in this area. This is why our copyright reform proposes a mandatory exception to the rules...."