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Copyright's Impact On Data Mining In Academic Research, Christian Handke, Lucie Guibault, Joan-Josep Vallbé
Copyright's Impact On Data Mining In Academic Research, Christian Handke, Lucie Guibault, Joan-Josep Vallbé
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With the proliferation of digital data, data mining (DM)—in the sense of the discovery of valuable structures in large sets of data—is expected to increase the productivity of many types of research. This paper discusses how copyright affects DM by academic researchers. In some territories, academic DM is lawful if researchers have lawful access to input works. In other territories such as the European Union, lawful DM additionally requires specific consent by rights holders. Based on bibliometric data and quasi-experimental research designs, we show that where academic DM requires specific rights holder consent: (1) DM publications make up a significantly …