Abstract:

The Hague Declaration on Knowledge Discovery in the Digital Age launched on 6th May 2015 points out that policy makers should aim to provide legal clarity by ensuring that content mining is not an infringement of copyright or related rights. Content mining is the process of deriving information from machine-readable material. The Hague Declaration raises 5 principles such as intellectual property law designed to the promotion of research activity, the freedom to analyze and pursue intellectual curiosity without fear of monitoring or repercussions, licenses and contract terms that should not restrict individuals, in response to changing technology and no restriction by intellectual property law for the innovation based on facts, data and ideas. The principles of the Hague Declaration should be reconsidered in the third version of Chinese Copyright modification in order to adapt to the content mining technology in the big data era.

Key words: Hague Declaration, Data mining, Fair use