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Text and Data Mining of In-Copyright Works: Is It Legal? How copyright law might be an impediment to text and data mining research.

The article discusses the legality of test and data mining (TDM) of in-copyright works. It examines the concept of fair use, the decisions in U.S. appellate court decisions in the Google Book Search Project (GBS) cases Authors Guild v. Google and Authors Guild v. HathiTrust, and the TDM exception in...

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Published in:Communications of the ACM Vol. 64; no. 11; pp. 20 - 23
Main Author: Samuelson, Pamela
Format: Article
Published: Association for Computing Machinery Nov2021
Subjects:
Copyright
Data mining
Fair use (Copyright)
Google Library Project
Japan
Online Access:View this record in EBSCOhost
Summary:The article discusses the legality of test and data mining (TDM) of in-copyright works. It examines the concept of fair use, the decisions in U.S. appellate court decisions in the Google Book Search Project (GBS) cases Authors Guild v. Google and Authors Guild v. HathiTrust, and the TDM exception in Japan.