The European digital single market copyright negotiations are reaching the final stage. The shape of the text and data mining provisions, which are a part of this legislative agenda, is beginning to emerge. According to Jeremy Malcol, senior global policy analyst with the Electronic Frontier Foundation international team, the next few weeks will provide Europeans with their last opportunity to guide the text and data mining provisions to support coders’ rights, open access, and innovation.
Why is it important to guide the text and data mining provisions? As such, the legality of text and data mining conducted in Europe is questionable, even though it does not produce anything that resembles the original input data set. Worse still, Europe also has a separate copyright-like regime of protection for databases. As a result, text and data mining activities could be in conflict with database rights.
Recognizing the usefulness of text and data mining to scientific research, the European Commission proposed to clarify its legality by adding a new optional text and data mining right to the European copyright law. However, there have also been proposals to strengthen or weaken the Commission's proposal. Therefore, this is the right time to take action and demand fair copyright policies.
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