[Corpora-List] Spoken corpora - permission issues

[Ramesh Krishnamurthy]

Hi Jean

>Beyond legal aspects, there are also ethics 
>issues. Even if some countries allow this (which 
>I am not sure), do we want to record people 
>without their knowing (even on trivial matters) ?

But if people know beforehand that they are going 
to be recorded, might this not alter
what they say and their way of saying it?

Surely asking their permission afterwards - after 
they have listened to the recording, if they
are worried - should not be rejected as a possible ethically-sound policy?

After all, CCTV operates in many public spaces 
without asking anyone's permission beforehand....

Best
Ramesh

At 8:45 am +0200 12/5/05, Jean Veronis wrote:
>Cameron Smart a écrit :
>
>>participants aren't necessarily aware of the recording taking place. Several
>>people struck a very cautionary note, one even saying that, in the UK at
>>least, these types of corpora might be a thing of the past unless I went and
>>got explicit permission not only from the volunteer but every other person
>>who was recorded as well.
>>
>>
>The law may be different in different countries. 
>In France the situation is clear, you cannot 
>record, and worse yet re-distribute anybody's 
>voice and/or transcribed speech without explicit 
>authorisation, even if anonymity is guaranteed.
>
>Beyond legal aspects, there are also ethics 
>issues. Even if some countries allow this (which 
>I am not sure), do we want to record people 
>without their knowing (even on trivial matters) ?
>
>--jv
>  http://aixtal.blogspot.com


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