Data mining exception ‘too narrow’

A proposed update to EU copyright laws won't keep pace with developments in data analysis, universities have said.

The European Commission’s copyright proposal includes a mandatory exception to copyright laws allowing research organisations to carry out text and data mining for the purposes of scientific research. The European University Association said on 18 November that this could be a short-lived solution for researchers given the pace of developments in science and ICT.

The proposal should be “future-proofed” by using the more general term of “data analytics” instead of TDM, the EUA said.