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...
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...
Trend analysis, future applications and economics of TDM
Text and Data Mining (TDM) has a vital role to play to ensure that Big Data exerts an economic impact. Gleaning value from vast...
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...
Deliverable on Regulations and Policies on FutureTDM
In my earlier blog post, I announced that FutureTDM is mapping the legal barriers to TDM in Europe, for which we conducted a questionnaire...
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...
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...
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....
An open-access publisher perspective on TDM
Interview: Mappet Walker, Project Manager (Frontiers Media SA)On 11 January 2017, one day before the European Parliament Legal Affairs Committee began debating the copyright...
OGP Global summit: ‘Mine The Government’
During the fourth OGP Global Summit 2016 conference held in December this year, FutureTDM together with Open Knowledge International was selected to hold a...
