October 2026

The Battle for Data

The Lisbon Council releases The Battle for Data: An Economic Analysis of Law Across Different Regulatory Approaches to Text and Data Mining for AI Training, a new policy brief by Dr Bartłomiej Biga, associate professor at Krakow University of Economics. The publication presents a striking finding on artificial intelligence and intellectual property rights: under the current European opt-out framework, Europe could forgo an estimated €942 billion in additional GDP by 2035. It also offers a comparative economic analysis of different regulatory approaches to text and data mining in Italy, Germany and Poland.

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