From: David Prosser <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2016 08:48:33 +0000

It is a step in the right direction - and follows the UK in allowing
text and data mining to content that you have legal access to.  Some
of us think that it, like the UK exception, it doesn’t go quite far
enough.  In the UK it is only non-commercial activity that is allowed;
in the European proposal it is only for organisations “acting in the
public”, so commercial organisations aren’t covered.

But at least it is a step!

David Prosser


On 16 Sep 2016, at 05:23, LIBLICENSE <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

From: Ann Shumelda Okerson <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2016 00:13:26 -0400

Question for European colleagues:  Is this a promising development?

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Declan Butler
15 September 2016

Europe proposes copyright reform to help scientists mine research papers

Long-awaited plan would exempt computer-aided harvesting from EU copyright law.

"The European Commission has announced long-awaited plans to make it
easier for researchers to harvest facts and data from research papers
— by freeing the computer-aided activity from the shackles of
copyright law."

http://www.nature.com/news/europe-proposes-copyright-reform-to-help-scientists-mine-research-papers-1.20606