The New Legal Landscape for Text Mining and Machine Learning by Matthew Sag :: SSRN

Various methods of computational and statistical analysis of text--usually referred to as text data mining ("TDM") or just text mining--can unlock that information. How this question is answered will have a profound influence on the future of research across the sciences and the humanities, and for the development of the next generation of information technology: machine learning and artificial intelligence. The Article shows how that theory was adopted and applied in the recent high-profile test cases, Authors Guild v. HathiTrust and Authors Guild v. Google, and takes stock of the legal context for TDM research in the United States in the aftermath of those decisions.