Off to Brussels for ContentMining (TDM) meeting.

I’m spending a (long) day going to Brussels to a meeting run by MEPs and the European Parliament on Text and Data Mining. Here’s the metadata:
“Demystifying Text and Data Mining in a copyright context”
When: Wednesday 27 April 2016, 13.00 – 15.00
Where: European Parliament, ASP, Room A5E2
Event co-hosted by Miapetra Kumpula-Natri & Therese Comodini Cachia & Catherine Stihler
First – I am a great supporter of the MEPs who propose reform – we can add Julia Reda (@senficon) to this.
The blurb is only present as a woolly GIF:  Why??? I can’t even cut-and-paste? we are in the digital century?
The UK has one of the few Exceptions to Copyright allowing TDM (for very limited purposes – personal non-commercial research for those who have legal access to the material). I am one of the very few people – perhaps one of two – who is actually using this legal permission.
Europe has been fighting for similar rights – and so have individual jurisdictions such as France:

• Is a journalist a PIRI? No.
• Is a teacher a PIRI? No.
• Is PMR a PIRI? No.

Who is?
My guess is that this will turn out to require either/or

• a regulator
• a court case

If we rely on the EC then maybe I would have to register as an approved TDM’er and only carry out TDM at approved institutions.
Please tell me that I am overreacting.
Please…
I shall certainly ask this tomorrow if I am allowed to speak.
oh – and here is the awful GIF that accompanied the event. I hope against hope that it was a mistake. It sends out every wrong message…

TDM Copyright reform is about LICENSING?? NO, NO, NO