Legal reform to enhance global text and data mining research | Science

"The resistance to TDM exceptions in copyright comes primarily from the multinational publishing industry, which is a strong voice in copyright debates and tends to oppose expansions to copyright exceptions. But the success at adopting exceptions for TDM research in the US and EU already—where publishing lobbies are strongest—shows that policy reform in this area is possible. Publishers need not be unduly disadvantaged by TDM exceptions because publishers can still license access to their databases, which researchers must obtain in the first instance, and can offer products that make TDM and other forms of research more efficient and effective."