copyright

Publishers, researchers and start-ups lobby lawmakers squabbling over the policy minutiae of a largely forbidden hi-tech research tool

EU Commission presents its plan to ease copyright laws, but the limited scope leaves some unhappy

Leaked papers reveal data analytics start-ups would not benefit from new text and mining rules, however

Awards of legal costs and ways of improving enforcement are overlooked in a new bill passed in the European Parliament. While SMEs will not be able to afford litigation, large companies will find it easier to keep more information secret

EU moves to make data mining by researchers exempt from copyright law would not remove the technical barriers. The right way to open up this resource is through a single sign-on licensing service, says Duncan Campbell, Director at John Wiley & Sons

European Parliament’s legal affairs committee backs reform of copyright law to allow text and data mining of academic journals for research, in a vote closely watched by scientists

The scene is set for intense lobbying by scientists and journal publishing companies between now and the autumn, when long-awaited reforms of EU copyright law must address the contentious issue of text and data mining

The UK government accepted all ten recommendations made in an independent review of IP published earlier this year, and said it will push hard on the single EU patent