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<DIV><SPAN class=390462403-24102002><FONT color=#0000ff size=2>Sorry I'm jumping
in so late on this.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=390462403-24102002><FONT color=#0000ff size=2>A couple of
months ago I was talking to a lawyer/professor from another university, who
specializes in copyright law as it applies to electronic materials and more
specifically, electronic materials on the Web. I explained to him a
project where I had a large amount of material in a web-based corpus, but users
could only see the hits in very short context concordance lines. His view
was that because the material that was made available to the end user was so
radically different from the original format (i.e. complete texts), there was no
problem at all. In addition, I emailed a second professor at another
university, who also specializes in copyright law as it applies to the Internet,
and she said basically the same thing. </FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=390462403-24102002><FONT color=#0000ff size=2>So that's perhaps
a different view of the issue, at least from here in the United States.
And as these two lawyers explained it to me, the copyright law that matters is
the law of the country from which the corpus materials are distributed, NOT the
country where the original texts were created OR the country from which end
users access the materials. That's why I'm only concerned with U.S. law,
as far as my corpus is concerned.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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