The European Commission and the Ukrainian National Office for Intellectual Property and Innovations (IP office) held their annual IP Dialogue under the Association Agreement between the European Commission and Ukraine on October 19, 2023. The Electronic Information for Libraries (EIFL) submitted written comments for the meeting, in which it acknowledges some the new exceptions for text and data mining and use of orphan works in the newly enacted 2022 Ukrainian Copyright Act. However, it also identifies three key areas where the law falls short of EU copyright law, namely, contract override, text and data mining, and out-of-commerce works. In the Ukrainian law, access to digital content may be denied by contract, TDM is only permitted for research purposes only in scientific publications, and does not have any exceptions for uses of out-of-commerce works by cultural heritage institutions. Read more at https://eifl.net/news/copyright-eifl-calls-level-playing-field-ukraine