[Corpora-List] Spoken corpora - permission issues

[Eric Atwell]

I suggest you look for precedents/guidelines well beyond
Corpus Linguistics research, asthese are ore general.

Surely the radio and TV industry sets a quite different precedent?
I have heard and seen radio and TV broadcasts where evry individual
could not have been asked permission, eg outsid news broadcasts.
I have been interviewed on radio but not asked formally for permission
to record and broadcast, and potentially archive and/or disseminate via
internet radio. This seems analogous to Google and other search engines
keeping cache versions of my web-page without seeking my permission.
I suppose oe rationale may be that broadcasts and caches are temporary
and not long-term public archives; but I have no idea  how long
a recording can remain in a cache or internet-radio website before
it counts as an archive aher thana temporary copy.

Eric Atwell, Leeds University


On Thu, 12 May 2005, Jean Veronis wrote:

> Cameron Smart a écrit :
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>> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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) ?
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> --jv
> http://aixtal.blogspot.com
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