Copyright's impact on data mining in academic research

With the proliferation of digital data, data mining (DM)—in sense discovery valuable structures in large sets data—is expected to increase productivity many types research. This paper discusses how copyright affects DM by academic researchers. In some territories, is lawful if researchers have access input works. other territories such as European Union, additionally requires specific consent rights holders. Based on bibliometric and quasi-experimental research designs, we show that where holder consent: (1) publications make up a significantly lower share total output, (2) stronger rule law associated with less To our knowledge, this study first empirically document an adverse effect intellectual property (IP) innovation under particular circumstances. There strong evidence exceptions or limitations promote adoption