Marco Caspers

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....
Frank Hellwig

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...
Kanella Pouli

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...
Marco Caspers

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...
FutureTDM

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,...
Jan Strycharz

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...
Freyja van den Boom

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...
Frank Hellwig

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...
Marco Caspers

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...