nam 22 uu 4500 10.59704/68942fbb2d63e0eb DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 251117s2025||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.59704/68942fbb2d63e0eb doi eng 342 23 Synodinou, Tatiana-Eleni Author aut Lawful Access as a Gatekeeper for TDM in the EU - An Analysis of the Scope of the Lawful Access Requirement under EU Copyright Exceptions Synodinou, Tatiana-Eleni Verfassungsblog 2025-11-17 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier Text and Data Mining (TDM) has become indispensable across disciplines: from medicine, where mining scientific articles can reveal patterns for new drug discoveries, to the humanities, where algorithms explore centuries of literature at once. The EU legislator embedded mandatory TDM exceptions into its Copyright in the Digital Single Market Directive. Chief requirement is that TDM can only be carried out on works to which researchers have “lawful access”. The concept of lawfulness, however, is anything but clear under EU copyright law. CC BY-SA 4.0 CDSM Directive Copyright European Union Freedom of research InfoSoc Directive Text and Data Mining (DE-588)10286403-2 gnd Copyright Vrakas, Giorgos Author aut Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://verfassungsblog.de/lawful-access-gatekeeper/ raw object