European Parliament Vote on Copyright Fails to Provide Legal Clarity for Research

«Science Europe is disappointed that the European Parliament did not sufficiently improve the far too restrictive proposal by the European Commission for text and data mining in Article 3 of the new Directive on Copyright, in today’s plenary vote.

Text and data mining (TDM) is an innovative way of reading content that one has lawful access to, using software rather than the naked eye. It allows for much faster analysis of such content, and at larger scale. New discoveries often result from analysis of the wealth of existing scientific results from all research disciplines. However, in the current proposalof the Directive, severe restrictions are placed on who can use such TDM techniques to analyse content.

Science Europe has called for a broad exception for TDM since the first discussions on the modernisation of the copyright legislation.

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