[Corpora-List] Legal aspects of corpora compiling

[Tadeusz Piotrowski]

This point was answered by native speakers of English, who discuss the
issue from their particular viewpoint. However, copyright problems
differ in various countries, and on one reading of the Polish law you
can hold as much text as you want on your computer, provided it is used
for research, and is not used in commerce. Some people differ with
regard to this, of course. It would be interesting to know what the
practice in other countries is, e.g. Germany or France.
 
profesor Tadeusz Piotrowski
Instytut Filologii Angielskiej
Uniwersytet Opolski
Oleska 48
Opole, Poland 

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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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