From: Matt McKay <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2016 07:57:35 +0000

David,

STM publishers are committed to facilitating TDM and already provide
products and services which meet the needs of users engaging in TDM.
Changes to copyright will not provide users with the tools they
require to be successful. In fact, TDM exceptions would introduce
legal uncertainty where none presently exists. Likewise, users rely on
the creation of, and access to, high quality content as raw material
to mine, exceptions would undermine the investment incentives
necessary to ensure this quality content is available.


Matt

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From: David Prosser <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2016 07:10:59 +0000

Perhaps Matt could expand on why some publishers and some publisher
associations (including STM) have lobbied hard against TDM exceptions
being implemented in national and international copyright regimes?

David



On 27 Jul 2016, at 02:26, LIBLICENSE <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

From: Matt McKay <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2016 15:02:06 +0000

Scientific publishers support text and data mining by providing access
to quality content and working with researchers to overcome technical
challenges. This also includes simplified licensing and the support
for text formatting allowing for efficient TDM activities. Active
users indicate that enabling initiatives introduced by publishers
deliver not only the legal certainty that they look for, but also meet
their practical needs. Most major STM publishers do and will continue
to offer licenses/license clauses which enable their customers to mine
both text and data across the research, corporate and educational
sectors. Likewise, most major STM publishers already meet the need of
users for TDM through various channels such as those facilitated by
CrossRef with a single one-time click through across multiple
publisher platforms. You can read STM’s position in our TDM
Declaration issued last year:

http://www.stm-assoc.org/2015_11_10_Text_and_Data_Mining_Declaration.pdf