S.L. 415.8 Art. 4Text and data mining for the purposes of scientific research.

Copyright in an audiovisual work, a database, a literary work other than in the case of a computer programme, a musical or artistic work and the right accorded to the maker of a sui generis database as well as the press publishers’ right as provided in regulation 15(1), shall not include the right to authorise or prohibit reproductions and extractions made by research organisations or cultural heritage institutions to carry out, for the purposes of scientific research, text and data mining of works or other subject matter to which they have lawful access:

Provided that:

(a) copies of work or other subject-matter made in compliance with the preceding paragraph shall be stored with an appropriate level of security and may be retained for the purposes of scientific research, including for the verification of research results;

(b) rightholders shall be allowed to apply measures to ensure the security and integrity of the networks and databases where the works or other subject-matter are hosted. Such measures shall not go beyond what is necessary to achieve that objective.