Copyright for Creativity

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...
Marco Caspers

The Commission’s proposed TDM exception: Who’s to benefit?

This blog post was originally published on the Kluwer Copyright Blog on September 15, 2016.Recently, the Commission published a draft of the Commission’s impact assessment “on the modernisation...
Marco Caspers

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...
Marco Caspers

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...
Marco Caspers

A right to read for machines? Part I: The introduction

We, as FutureTDM, we were happy to organise and moderate a panel discussion at the Annual Meeting 2016 of the Association for Information Science...
Frank Hellwig

iCLIC Data Mining and Data Sharing Workshop (Part 2)

Report 2: Sui generis database right, functional vs. technical view, caveats of the Japanese TDM exception, integrationThis is the second of three blog...
Marco Caspers

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...
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...
Freyja van den Boom

FutureTDM reports on APE 2017

A few weeks ago the FutureTDM poster travelled to Berlin to be shown during the APE conference organized by Academic Publishing in Europe (APE)Publishing...
Projekt: Polska Foundation

FutureTDM Symposium 2017

On 13th of June, we held our FutureTDM Symposium at the International Data Science Conference 2017, in Salzburg, Austria. The aim was to share...