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- (1) ‘research organisation’ means a university, including its…
- (2) ‘text and data mining’ means any automated analytical tech…
- (3) ‘cultural heritage institution’ means a publicly accessibl…
- (4) ‘press publication’ means a collection composed mainly of…
- (5) ‘information society service’ means a service within the m…
- (6) ‘online content-sharing service provider’ means a provider…
(6)‘online content-sharing service provider’ means 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.
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