Research

Artificial Intelligence (AI), Digital Single Market, European Union, Research, Text and Data Mining (TDM)

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This week, COMMUNIA released a new report detailing unfair practices in the licensing of digital resources to libraries (as a PDF file). This report describes contractual practices identified by licensing managers from public and academic libraries across Europe during a meeting organised by COMMUNIA under the Chatham House Rule. The report also contains clauses from…

CDSM Directive, Education, Research

(Knowledge Rights 21, International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions)/ /Leave a comment

In the first part of this blog, we explored the structure of formalised copyright councils, finding that efforts to ensure balance between the interests of rightsholders and users were the exception not the rule. Furthermore, it was only in a small minority of cases that the representation of research was formalised. Part 2 explores experience…

Belgium, Education, Estonia, Finland, France, Hungary, Italy, Lithuania, Research, Spain

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The interests of research are not necessarily heard or represented when decisions are being made about copyright laws that affect them. Both permanent and temporary consultation structures more often than not fail to ensure that there is a channel open for this. Part one of this two-part blog introduces the issues and looks at the…