Eleonora Rosati

An EU text and data mining exception for the few: would it make sense?

In the age of Big Data the value of data does not lie in data or text considered in their isolation, but rather in the extraction of such value. This requires that text and data be analyzed, to thus enable the discovery of new patterns and relations. While a task of this kind would be virtually impossible to perform manually, text and data mining (TDM) techniques allow it easily. In 2016 the EU Commission issued a proposal for a Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market (DSM Directive) which, among other things, includes a new mandatory exception allowing research organizations to make reproductions and extractions in order to carry out TDM of works or other subject-matter...