Editing Text mining (section)

=== Situation in Europe ===
[[File:FixCopyright- Copyright & Research - Text & Data Mining (TDM) Explained.webm|thumb|Video by Fix Copyright campaign explaining TDM and its copyright issues in the EU, 2016 [3:51]]]
Under [[Copyright law of the European Union|European copyright]] and [[Database Directive|database laws]], the mining of in-copyright works (such as by [[web mining]]) without the permission of the copyright owner is illegal. In the UK in 2014, on the recommendation of the [[Hargreaves review]], the government amended copyright law<ref>[http://www.out-law.com/en/articles/2014/june/researchers-given-data-mining-right-under-new-uk-copyright-laws/ Researchers given data mining right under new UK copyright laws] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140609020315/http://www.out-law.com/en/articles/2014/june/researchers-given-data-mining-right-under-new-uk-copyright-laws/ |date=June 9, 2014 }}</ref> to allow text mining as a [[Limitations and exceptions to copyright|limitation and exception]]. It was the second country in the world to do so, following [[Copyright law of Japan|Japan]], which introduced a mining-specific exception in 2009. However, owing to the restriction of the [[Information Society Directive]] (2001), the UK exception only allows content mining for non-commercial purposes. UK copyright law does not allow this provision to be overridden by contractual terms and conditions.

The [[European Commission]] facilitated stakeholder discussion on text and [[data mining]] in 2013, under the title of Licenses for Europe.<ref>{{cite web|title=Licences for Europe – Structured Stakeholder Dialogue 2013|url=http://ec.europa.eu/licences-for-europe-dialogue/en/content/about-site|website=European Commission|access-date=14 November 2014}}</ref> The fact that the focus on the solution to this legal issue was licenses, and not limitations and exceptions to copyright law, led representatives of universities, researchers, libraries, civil society groups and [[open access]] publishers to leave the stakeholder dialogue in May 2013.<ref>{{cite web|title=Text and Data Mining:Its importance and the need for change in Europe|url=http://libereurope.eu/news/text-and-data-mining-its-importance-and-the-need-for-change-in-europe/|website=[[Association of European Research Libraries]]|access-date=14 November 2014|date=2013-04-25|archive-date=2014-11-29|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141129021244/http://libereurope.eu/news/text-and-data-mining-its-importance-and-the-need-for-change-in-europe/|url-status=dead}}</ref>