The FutureTDM Open Science Cafe at the Dutch Presidency Open Science...
Open Science is a key priority of the Dutch EU Presidency. The Netherlands is committed to open access to scientific publications and the best...
Text and Data Mining: how the Future TDM workshop highlighted the...
For the legal geeks among us, it is now old news that the European Commission, after promising to modernise copyright, issued a rather...
The Role of Anne Frank’s Diary and Academic Freedom for Text...
It is beyond dispute that Anne Frank’s diary is of great historical value. A recent Dutch court decision confirms this, in a case that...
Some observations of the French TDM exception
As of October 7, 2016, the law on a Digital Republic (“République Numérique”) introduced an exception for text and data mining (TDM) in the...
iCLIC Data Mining and Data Sharing Workshop (Part 3)
Report 3: UK and EU TDM exception, contract override and APIs, wealth transferThis is the third of three blog posts on the iCLIC Data...
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....
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...
An open-access publisher perspective on Text and Data Mining
Interview with Frederick Fenter, Executive Editor (Frontiers Media SA) On 11 January 2017, one day before the European Parliament Legal Affairs Committee began debating...
An open-access publisher perspective on TDM
Interview with Frederick Fenter, Executive Editor (Frontiers Media SA) On 11 January 2017, one day before the European Parliament Legal Affairs Committee began debating...
The Objectives of FutureTDM
In order to foster the exploitation of TDM in European scientific, economic and public sectors, and eventually boost economy and society as a whole,...
