[Corpora-List] Legal aspects of compiling corpora

[Susana Sotillo IMAP]

And if they sue, just take down their stuff.

Susana

Adam Kilgarriff wrote:

> On the one hand, if your enemies are rich enough you'll lose.
>
> On the other you're probably less worth sueing than Google and they are
> still going strong (anyone out there from Google?  Your contribution
> most welcome), and it doesn't sound like you are doing anything with any
> salient legal difference.   (Getting authors' agreements takes huge
> amounts of resources and isn't feasible; listing references doesn't
> help.)
>
> People do get unhappy about their pictures and audio being grabbed from
> the web for use in other people's databases, and I have heard of cases
> of web developers having to rein in their ambitions because objections
> have been made.  As yet, mercifully, that hasn't happened with text -
> people don't seem alarmed at the idea that the text they publish on the
> web gets re-used.  Let's all pray it stays that way (though sooner or
> later we're bound to get chancers trying it on - can't help fearing the
> web is in its honeymoon phase, and the racketeers will mess it all up
> before too long).
>
> In the meantime - take courage! Do it!
>
>         Adam
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-corpora at lists.uib.no [mailto:owner-corpora at lists.uib.no]
> On
> > Behalf Of delucca at nilc.icmc.usp.br
> > Sent: 13 June 2003 13:49
> > To: corpora at hd.uib.no
> > Subject: [Corpora-List] Legal aspects of compiling corpora
> >
> >
> > 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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