[Corpora-List] Ethical review of spoken corpus collection

[Geoffrey Sampson]

Following up my last, responding specifically to John Du Bois's suggestion
that publishing one's speech corpus, and saying in advance that one is
going to do so, solves the problem:  I can't see that it does.  Suppose (to
take an actual example from BNC) that you have a couple of teenage girls
chatting informally, and saying that one of their schoolmates (not
participating in the conversation, but identifiable from various clues)
behaves like a whore.  The speakers might be happy to sign your release
form for publication; does that make the implications for the other girl
all right?  Maybe, under US law, you would be legally safe; you certainly
would not be under European law, and although it goes against the grain to
say anything good about the European Union, in this case I think it has a
point.

Geoffrey Sampson


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