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...
Interview: Julia Reda MEP (Digital Agenda Intergroup)
Our FutureTDM Workshop in Brussels on 27 September 2016 is sponsored by the European Parliament Digital Agenda Intergroup. We interviewed Julia Reda MEP, member of...
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...
The FutureTDM Workshop: Improving Uptake of Text and Data Mining in...
On 27 September 2016, FutureTDM held our first Workshop in Brussels. The event was sponsored and Chaired by the European Parliament Digital Agenda Intergroup...
Text and data mining in history
Joris van Eijnatten is professor of cultural history at Utrecht University, The Netherlands. He has a fascination for numbers that not many historians have....
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...
Highlights from the European Data Forum (EDF) 2016 Attendance: Ideas, Insights,...
In 2016, European Data Forum (EDF) was organised by the Data Science Center Eindhoven of the Eindhoven University of Technology in cooperation with Amsterdam...
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....
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...
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...