European Parliament must improve the Text and Data Mining (TDM) exception to benefit European research and innovation

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"Brussels, 26 March 2018

The European Parliament must improve the Text and Data Mining (TDM) exception to benefit European research and innovation

Dear members of the JURI Committee,

We, members of 28 organisations representing universities, large and small technology companies, telecommunications and Internet services providers, startups and scaleups, libraries, scientific and research funding and performing organisations, open access publishers, investigative and data journalists and non- profits, represent a key constituency of TDM users.

The diversity of our group reflects the reality of the European research ecosystem today, as the growing use of big data and artificial intelligence tools in research and innovation now result from the seamless collaboration between public and private organisations. In our view, this successful ecosystem will be penalised if the European Parliament’s work on TDM in the Copyright Directive continues in its current direction. Therefore, we wish to communicate our common position with regards to the TDM provisions.

As the European Commission launches its strategy on Artificial Intelligence (AI), everyone must be mindful of the foundational role that TDM plays in AI. TDM is a building block for machine learning - without the ability of computers to analyse data and employ cognitive technologies, AI is not possible. Any comprehensive strategy to make Europe globally competitive in the race to develop and implement AI-powered solutions must include robust support for TDM in both the public and private research industries, and not be reserved for very limited non-commercial public interest research projects. Limiting the ability of private companies to carry out TDM in Europe will inevitably lead to the most promising European startups and companies relocating to the US1 or Japan2, where the legal frameworks will allow them to have access to broader datasets, and where they will be able to build algorithms of better quality.

Many signatories of this letter have already provided you with proposed amendments, which we believe would help remove the legal uncertainty that the Commission’s proposed exception has left for many users. With this letter, we wish to reaffirm our collective support for the following essential principles to create the right legal framework for a globally competitive research ecosystem in Europe...."

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http://www.eifl.net/sites/default/files/resources/openletter-to-juri-committee-on-tdm_26march2018.pdf

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Date tagged:

04/05/2018, 12:14

Date published:

04/05/2018, 08:14