Data Mining
About this project
Lead investigator(s):
– Prof Lilian Edwards
– Prof Lilian Edwards
Contributor(s):
– Mr Christian Geib
– Mr Christian Geib
Start Date: 1st October 2012
End Date: 30th September 2015
Summary
This projects studied technical and legal problems around the data mining and text analytics industries with particular emphasis on reuse and transformation of digital and cultural products.
Project outputs include:
- Is Licensing the Answer to Existing Copyright and sui generis Database Rights Impediments to Data Mining? – this talk was provided at the Intellectual Property Law Discussion Group (IPDG) meeting in December 2015.
- Response to Draft Legislation to modernise copyright exceptions published for technical review: New Exception for Data Analysis for Non-commercial Research – this collaborative submission from a group of UK academics specialising in intellectual property and information technology law was prepared by Christian Geib and Lilian Edwards.
- “Licences for Europe – A Stakeholder Dialogue” – Working Group 4: Text and Data Mining – this letter was sent by participants in response to a workshop on text and data mining for scientific research purposes.
- The Machines are Rising: TEXT MINING. Why text mining is good news for research, the tax payer and why copyright law still impedes it – this poster was presented at the University of Strathclyde HaSS Graduate School Research Day in May 2015.
- A wrong focus on “non-commercial” instead of “transformative”? Lessons to be learned for European copyright policy from the Google Books decision and opt-out procedures á la robots this talk was provided at BILETA 2014. An abstract is available here.
- Data Mining-A Potential Breakthrough Technology Impeded by Copyright and Sui Generis Database Rights? If so, what solutions are there? – in tis blog post, Christian Geib argues that UK should lobby at EU level for a commercial data mining exception.
- All Hands 2014: CREATe Results – Books, Publishing, Archives and Libraries – in this blog, Megan Blakely reports on the Books, Publishing, Archives and Libraries session at the September CREATe All Hands Conference. This session included a talk from Christian Geib on data mining.
- Project poster – project activities have been summarised in this poster which was presented at the CREATe All Hands conference in September 2014.