[Corpora-List] Legal aspects of corpora compiling

[Amsler, Robert]

Adam's fine posting on copyright needs only one short addendum.

It isn't ONLY cases in which someone is going to profit from the use of
material
that copyright issues can arise. You might think that if there is no profit
to be made you're in the clear--this isn't the case. Copyright also covers
situations in which the copyright holder suffers a loss of profit because
your
use of their material diminishes their ability to sell it at full price.

This situation came up well before Napster, when universities were called to
task for
providing faculty with photocopies of articles out of journals to which
their libraries subscribed,
which the publishers felt was diminishing the personal subscriptions to
those journals they could sell to faculty directly. There is now a
considerable difference
between "institutional" subscription rates and "personal" subscription rates
to
compensate copyright holders for losses due to library readership.

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