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....
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...
TDM European Funded Projects and Infrastructures
Is European research interested in TDM?Yes it is. This is manifested both by the number of scientific articles published in journals and conferences by...
EU Copyright and the Path to Reform
If you are following our blogs and twitter feed, you can’t have failed to notice that there has been a fair bit of coverage...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
iCLIC Data Mining and Data Sharing Workshop (Part 1)
Report 1: TDM exception, copyright reform process, temporary copying, reproduction rightThe iCLIC Data Mining and Data Sharing workshop took place on 23rd September 2016...
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...