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Horizon 2020

Coordination and Support Action

GARRI-3-2014 Scientific Information in the Digital Age: Text and Data Mining (TDM)

Project number: 665940

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FutureTDM Reducing Barriers and Increasing Uptake of Text and Data Mining for Research Environments

using a Collaborative Knowledge and Open Information Approach

FTDM workshop/Brussels

27 september 2016

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Unclarity of applicable rules

Is TDM covered by copyright at all? Should it?

Restrictiveness of existing copyright exceptions

Most research exceptions too narrow

Cross-border differences in the law

Current statutory framework & TDM

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Open Access material freely minable

Not all minable material licensed under OA:

Some under strict licence/ TDM forbidden;

Some through API/ TDM limited;

Some without a licence/ TDM unknown;

Problems of interoperability of licences

Licensing practices & TDM

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EU Reform: Scope of exception for TDM

Beneficiary?

‘Research Organisation’ – other, like ‘lawful user’?

Purpose of use?

Commercial/ non-commercial research?

Minable material?

Unrestricted? Or ‘only those associated with scientific

publication’?