Proposal for a directive of the European Parliament and the Council on copyright in the Digital Single Market

Proposal for a directive of the European Parliament and the Council on copyright in the Digital Single Market

Summary of key points:

• The scope of the proposed mandatory exception for Text and Data Mining (TDM) should be widened beyond research conducted in research institutions, all the way to commercial actors. Limiting the exception will create barriers for data based industry, especially startups and SMEs. This does not help in creating a Digital Single Market.
• The neighbouring right for press publishers, as introduced in the EC proposal, is unclear in its scope, and does not support content producers but rather large actors in the publishing industry. If the neighbouring rights are introduced, they should be more clearly limited so that they will not apply to scientific publications.