Hi Dimi
I see from this communication, published last week, that the Commission
is assessing
options and will consider legislative proposals on other EU exceptions
by spring 2016, in order to:
- allow public interest research organisations to carry out text
and data mining of content they have lawful access to, with full legal
certainty, for scientific research purposes;
- provide clarity on the scope of the EU exception for
‘illustration for teaching’, and its application to digital uses and to
online learning;
- provide a clear space for preservation by cultural heritage
institutions, reflecting the use of digital technologies for
preservation and the needs of born-digital and digitised works;
- support remote consultation, in closed electronic networks, of
works held in research and academic libraries and other relevant
institutions, for research and private study;
- clarify the current EU exception permitting the use of works
that were made to be permanently located in the public space (the
‘panorama exception’), to take into account new dissemination channels.
Do you know what will happen in practice? Will there be draft
legislation in the spring, and will we get any chance to influence the
wording?
Best regards
Michael
Michael Maggs
Chair, Wikimedia UK