PIJIP Director Sean Flynn recently presented his paper Research Exceptions in Comparative Copyright at a conference on "Rethinking Copyright Flexibilities" in Nicosia, Cyprus.  The paper  classifies countries based on the degree to which they have a research exception in their law that is sufficiently open to be able to permit reproduction and communications of copyrighted work needed for academic (i.e. non-commercial) text and data mining (TDM) research.