[Corpora-List] Legal aspects of compiling corpora

[Mark Sanderson]

I think the honest answer is that it is a question with no clear answer.

I know that legal concerns have prevented US government funded projects
such as TREC (http://trec.nist.gov) from building Web collections and they
have got other organisations to build and distribute such collections. I
also know that Web search engines have been ordered to take off image and
sound collections from their Web sites, but I don't think this has happened
with HTML. Maybe text is viewed as being generally less valuable than other
media types.



At 09:49 13/06/2003 -0300, delucca at nilc.icmc.usp.br wrote:

>Dear Linguists and Lawyers,
>
>I am troubled with Legal aspects of corpora compiling. I am in
>doubt if is an illegal procedure storage webpages (or part of them)
>in a database (see at http://www.dictionarium.com/project.htm),
>not available to public, and display its contents as short collocations
>less than 100 characters by time by search method.
>
>On the other hand, the Internet search engines uses cached (temporary ?)
>copies of the sites and display a short of the web pages.
>
>My procedure is wrong? Which the Legal difference? I need ask permission
>for each website to storage its pages? If I mention the source and the author
>I will be protecting the copyrights?
>
>
>I look forward to hearing from you.
>
>
>Yours Sincerely,
>
>
>J. L. De Lucca
>
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