Text and Data Mining (hereinafter, TDM) issue for the purpose of scientific research or for any other purpose which is included in the provisions of the new EU Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market (hereinafter, DSM). TDM is a term that includes Web harvesting and Web Archiving...

Extended copyright piracy has brought into focus the question whether, among other techniques to fight piracy, such as intensive criminalization and enforcement of intellectual property rights, raising public awareness of copyright issues may help. The paper describes how copyright awareness has...

The Court House in Gaziantep is the work place of 67 judges, 45 prosecutors and 150 clerks, as well as the 12 Enforcement Offices (EOs) and their staff. It is a new building, designed on the basis of the maximum separation for each category of staff (separate entrances, separate cafeterias etc.)...

Any firm today may, at little or no cost, build its own infrastructure to process personal data for commercial, economic, political, technological or any other purposes. Society has, therefore, turned into a privacy-unfriendly environment. The processing of personal data is essential for...

We live in the Big Data age. Firms process an enormous amount of raw, unstructured and personal data derived from innumerous sources. Users consent to this processing by ticking boxes when using movable or immovable devices and things. The users' control over the processing of their data appears...

After having built private networks of knowledge, firms are aware of users' personal data and are capable of creating systems to sort people into groups. The potential of powerful and opaque algorithms to create discriminatory biases has been widely acknowledged, and there is no explanation...

Access to knowledge bridges in part the digital divide. This paper proposes the integration of all the Greek academic institutional repositories into one, truly accessible to everyone who can reasonably handle a computer. Simple rules of search within this one institutional repository must be...

The age of digital technology has introduced new complications into the issues of fair and private use of copyrighted material. In fact, the question of private use of another's work has been transformed from a side issue in intellectual property jurisprudence into the very center of...

This paper describes intellectual property legislation in the European Union, the US and the Draft Treaty on the legal protection of unoriginal databases, usually available in the Internet. I argue that this type of legislation, if enforced upon developing countries and countries in transition...