TEXT AND DATA MINING EXCEPTION - TECHNOLOGY INTO OUR LIVES

Abstract

Since 2016, when the Copyright Reform Directive (Directive in the Digital Single Market) had been proposed for adoption, two major versions of the text were under examination and negotiation in the European Parliament. The comparative study of those two legal texts proposed allowed a more comprehensive understanding of the provisions' scope as well as of the different public interests that sustained the recently introduced exceptions. This paper focuses on interpretation of the proposed provisions of text and data mining exceptions by mostly explaining the technical concepts involved. The text and data mining exception has a very important place between the proposed legal texts since its corresponding provision addresses some new type of uses that should be understood in a technological context and have the potential to affect our lives.

Keywords

• data-mining
• copyright exceptions
• copyright reform
• public interest
• technology
• big data