[Corpora-List] Legal aspects of compiling corpora

[Gabriela.Saldanha at dcu.ie]

Shouldn't this statemet be 'published' in one of the many websites
that people keep publicising in this list? Together with signatures?


Gaby Saldanha


>-- Original Message --
>Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2003 15:49:03 +0700
>To: corpora at hd.uib.no
>From: Doug Cooper <doug at th.net>
>Subject: Re: [Corpora-List] Legal aspects of compiling corpora
>
>
>Dear Corporeans:
>
>For the record, here is my attempt at drafting a basic statement
>of professional practice in regard to using text corpora.  It
>describes a well-understood (and I hope easily defended)
>subset of corpus applications, in service of setting up -- but
>not asserting the conclusion of -- the following syllogism:
>
> - some research use of copyrighted texts is protected by law;
> - here are some ways we use copyrighted texts for research;
> - perhaps our research uses are also protected.


Gaby Saldanha
SALIS - DCU
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