Öffentliche Konsultation zur Umsetzung der EU-Richtlinien im Urheberrecht (DSM-RL (EU) 2019/790 und Online-SatCab-RL (EU) 2019/789): Stellungnahme von IBM

Intellectual Property Law Mailpoint 110 IBM United Kingdom Limited Hursley Park Winchester Hampshire SO21 2JN Telephone: +44 (0) 1962 815000 Fax: +44 (0) 1962 818927 Email: IBMUKIPLAW@uk.ibm.com 6 September 2019 IBM welcomes the opportunity to comment on the commercial text and data mining provisions of the DIRECTIVE (EU) 2019/790 OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL of 17 April 2019 on copyright and related rights in the Digital Single Market and amending Directives 96/9/EC and 2001/29/EC [DSM Directive]. A II 2 commercial text and data mining (Articles 2(2), 4, 7) Artificial Intelligence [AI] is a set of technologies that has risen in importance exponentially over the last few years, particularly with respect to digital transformation. A diverse and numerous set of industries and sectors are already benefitting from its value, and that set continues to grow. Text and data mining [TDM] is a critical tool for use in AI and data analytics solutions -- TDM is a form of technology-enabled analytics that allows for discovering of correlations and identifying useful knowledge from information that rests undiscovered in data sets, large and small, in ways that can be processed and harnessed for a myriad of valuable purposes. The relationship between AI and TDM is an intimate one. In building AI, TDM of publicly available data, or data for which legitimate access is already available, also plays a crucial role: Access to knowledge is a prerequisite for creating AI...