[Corpora-List] obtaining copyright permissions

[John Burger]

Albretch Mueller wrote:

> What I still don't clearly see is how all these copyright issues
> would affect us. Not that I am losing my sleep over it, but it still
> pertain to us. Corpora aren't really a new medium per se, but I see
> how corpora could become a new ground setting technology and greatly
> change the rules of the game in a near future
> ~
> I hope we, corpora-research people, are not going to have separate
> "legal" incumbencies.

The main issue is with distributing a corpus.  If you are giving  
someone else's copyrighted material to a third party, you typically  
need to go through some legalities.  That's what I understood this  
thread to be about.

- John D. Burger
   MITRE


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