Submission to Nigerian Copyright Office: Consultation on Copyright Amendment Bill
[Sean Flynn and Dick Kawooya] We are grateful for the opportunity to participate in Nigeria’s consultation on its copyright bill. Below, we present some of our research findings from PIJIP’s Project on the Right to Research in International Copyright relating to the importance of flexibility in copyright law to permit text and data mining (“TDM”). TDM is a critical element of numerous machine learning and “artificial intelligence” intelligence applications. Our research supports the adoption of the proposed open fair dealing exception for “research.” Our research also supports consideration of an additional specific exception for uses of works in TDM to supplement the proposed general fair dealing exception.
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