CULT’s opinion on the TDM exception
On 6 February 2017, the Committee on Culture and Education (hereafter: CULT) published its draft opinion on the recently proposed directive on copyright in the Digital...
Text and Data Mining Found in All Corners of Economy
Since the beginning of humanity, the development of novel technologies sometimes had a significant impact on the structure of society and on its distribution...
FutureTDM’s policy recommendations are here!
While discussions at the EU on copyright reform and an exception for text and data mining (TDM) are very much live, FutureTDM, a Commission...
Betting on automated (big) data analytics pays off 10:1. Or, does...
It is believed that there is huge worth behind automated (big) data mining and analytics. Integrating many data sources with properly developed algorithms can...
Interview: Julia Reda MEP (Digital Agenda Intergroup)
Our FutureTDM Workshop in Brussels on 27 September 2016 is sponsored by the European Parliament Digital Agenda Intergroup. We interviewed Julia Reda MEP, member of...
Why a Copyright Exception Should Go Beyond TDM
It is a basic principle of copyright law that ideas are not protected. What copyright does protect is the original expression of those ideas....
BONSAI your data and allow them to be mined
The debate on the European Union (EU) regulation of text and data mining (TDM) has been animated by the draft reform proposed by the...
FutureTDM is Mapping the Legal Barriers to TDM in Europe
The goal of FutureTDM is to promote uptake of the use of TDM in Europe. Part of the solution therefore lies in identifying barriers...
Behind the scenes of the 1st International Data Science conference
We sat down with Peter Haber and Manfred Mayr of the Salzburg University of Applied Sciences, both conference chairs of the 1st International Data...
Neighbouring Rights, Publishers, and a TDM Exception
Until now, the copyright reform process initiated by the European Commission had brought some hope for text and data mining (TDM) researchers, when it...
