EU Copyright Directive
The future of knowledge is in your hands
New technologies and the Internet have enabled novel and improved ways of finding, sharing and creating knowledge, both locally and across borders. This includes sharing of knowledge by direct messages, through open repositories, in cultural heritage institutions and through research networks, as well as with students through innovative and interactive means. It also covers the discovery of knowledge through techniques such as text and data mining.
All of this will change if the proposed Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market is adopted by the European Union in its current version, at various levels.
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“The needed transition to a healthy publishing infrastructure with openly accessible and reusable corpus is currently under threat from incorrect implementations and unhappy compromises.”
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“While other sectors have long embraced digital innovations, libraries are still being prevented from updating long-standing practices, such as preservation, due to technological protection measures and contract terms in a bid to increase protections for rightholders, without a proper balance with public interests.”
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“If permission is required for TDM, then less mining will take place and the pace of discovery will decrease in the EU or will take place elsewhere, as the EU get leapfrogged by other regions.”
