Defined terms — 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 (Text with EEA relevance)
European Union · 32019L0790 · 105 provisions
6 defined in this instrument.
cultural heritage institution — a publicly accessible library or museum, an archive or a film or audio heritage institution Article 2
information society service — a service within the meaning of point (b) of Article 1(1) of Directive (EU) 2015/1535 Article 2
online content-sharing service provider — a provider of an information society service of which the main or one of the main purposes is to store and give the public access to a large amount of copyright-protected works or other protected subject matter uploaded by its users, which it organises and promotes for profit-making purposes.
Providers of services, such as not-for-profit online encyclopedias, not-for-profit educational and scientific repositories, open source software-developing and-sharing platforms, providers of electronic communications services as defined in Directive (EU) 2018/1972, online marketplaces, business-to-business cloud services and cloud services that allow users to upload content for their own use, are not ‘online content-sharing service providers’ within the meaning of this Directive Article 2
press publication — a collection composed mainly of literary works of a journalistic nature, but which can also include other works or other subject matter, and which:
(a)
constitutes an individual item within a periodical or regularly updated publication under a single title, such as a newspaper or a general or special interest magazine;
(b)
has the purpose of providing the general public with information related to news or other topics; and
(c)
is published in any media under the initiative, editorial responsibility and control of a service provider.
Periodicals that are published for scientific or academic purposes, such as scientific journals, are not press publications for the purposes of this Directive Article 2
research organisation — a university, including its libraries, a research institute or any other entity, the primary goal of which is to conduct scientific research or to carry out educational activities involving also the conduct of scientific research:
(a)
on a not-for-profit basis or by reinvesting all the profits in its scientific research; or
(b)
pursuant to a public interest mission recognised by a Member State;
in such a way that the access to the results generated by such scientific research cannot be enjoyed on a preferential basis by an undertaking that exercises a decisive influence upon such organisation Article 2
text and data mining — any automated analytical technique aimed at analysing text and data in digital form in order to generate information which includes but is not limited to patterns, trends and correlations Article 2