<commit_before>## Legal aspects of content mining

Session by <NAME> [@CharlesOppenh](https://twitter.com/CharlesOppenh)

![Charles Oppenheim](https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/1311189953/chasphoto.jpg)

Charles is a former Professor of Information Science, interested in legal stuff, evaluation of research and scholarly publishing. He is an acclaimed expert in Library studies, copyright, scholarship, etc., and will provide us with a review of UK law relevant to content mining issues.

## Extra materials

- Charles' slides available [here](http://www.slideshare.net/richardsmithunna/social-political-and-legal-aspects-of-text-and-data-mining-tdm).
- <NAME> blog [here](http://blogs.ch.cam.ac.uk/pmr/).
- The recent updates to UK copyright legislation can be found [here](https://www.gov.uk/government/news/changes-to-copyright-law).
- Additional guidance documents on the recent UK copyright updates are linked from [here](https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/changes-to-copyright-law).<commit_msg>reorganise, add links to publisher TDM policies<commit_after>## Legal aspects of content mining

<NAME> ([@CharlesOppenh](https://twitter.com/CharlesOppenh)) will give a presentation and lead a discussion about legal, social and political aspects of content mining.

![Charles Oppenheim](https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/1311189953/chasphoto.jpg)

Charles is a former Professor of Information Science, interested in legal stuff, evaluation of research and scholarly publishing. He is an acclaimed expert in Library studies, copyright, scholarship, etc., and will provide us with a review of UK law relevant to content mining issues.

### Extra materials

- Charles' slides available [here](http://www.slideshare.net/richardsmithunna/social-political-and-legal-aspects-of-text-and-data-mining-tdm).

#### UK law

- The recent updates to UK copyright legislation can be found [here](https://www.gov.uk/government/news/changes-to-copyright-law).
- Additional guidance documents on the recent UK copyright updates are linked from [here](https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/changes-to-copyright-law).

#### Publisher's policies

- Springer's text and data mining policy - an example of a well-thought through policy that tries and succeeds to support TDM research: http://www.springer.com/gp/rights-permissions/springer-s-text-and-data-mining-policy/29056.
- Elsevier's text and data mining policy - an example of a poorly thought through policy that misunderstands the law and tries to create artificial restrictions: http://www.elsevier.com/about/policies/content-mining-policies.

#### General extra reading

- <NAME>'s blog [here](http://blogs.ch.cam.ac.uk/pmr/).
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