Response of EUA to the European Commission’s Communication on copyright

EUA especially welcomes the EC’s ambition to strive for more harmonisation and to provide exceptions for text and data mining and teaching. Providing students researchers educators and innovators with more legal certainty on the rights and obligations in use of the materials is an important step forwards. In addition this can result in competitive advantages with respect to their peers in other jurisdictions. The EC’s intentions are hence important both for increased collaboration and exchange of knowledge.