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Sad story. But it surely that illustrates Adam's point. He took on
some powerful people. Edward Snowden took on powerful agencies too.
If you tweak a tiger's tail you might get pounced on.<br>
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Damir was on about frequency profiles only, not source texts. I
think he is safe enough until frequency profiles become very
valuable resources.<br>
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Mike<br>
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Perhaps you may read this news article from New York Times and
take necessary precautions. But let me indicate that, Issues
about copyrights are very delicate and must be handled with
care. Especially when you are an individual. Please take a
look. <br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 5:00 AM,
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rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Hi everybody,<br>
<br>
I know, this question has been addressed a lot, but,
just to get an<br>
update on this issue and your expert opinion:<br>
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If I am accessing the internet from the US, as I am
right now, and I<br>
decide to generate N-gram-based language models by
exploiting the web as<br>
a corpus and publish the word-lists and frequency
profiles openly on my<br>
homepage, sell them even, change or manipulate them, and
reuse them in<br>
various ways, would this be<br>
<br>
a. ok as fair-use for research only, excluding
commercial use<br>
b. legal in general, independent of my research
interests<br>
c. legal only in some countries (so, my models would be
illegal in some<br>
others)<br>
<br>
What is the current status of the web as a corpus and
extracted language<br>
models from the legal perspective in the US and
globally?<br>
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If I do the same now with open-access journals and
extract frequency<br>
profiles of tokens for a certain research domain, would
it be the same?<br>
It I use Google Books? Or even some news website?<br>
<br>
Is the extraction of a language model, maybe a domain
specific frequency<br>
profile a copyright infringement per se? The text cannot
be<br>
reconstructed, the content is not visible, the authors
style neither, in<br>
particular not, if the corpus is larger etc.<br>
<br>
Thanks!<br>
<br>
Damir<br>
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Department of Linguistics<br>
Indiana University<br>
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