[Corpora-List] copyright issues

[Francis Tyers]

El vie, 27-02-2009 a las 13:21 +0100, Christian Chiarcos escribió:

> The problem is even worse, because it is not entirely clear what counts as  
> a derived work (annotations ? statistical models trained on these ?), and  
> to what degree the copyright owner of the original text also receives a  
> copyright on the derived work. If the corpus data is problematic in its  
> copyright, then derived works may be problematic as well.
> 
> At least for this reason, it's safer to ask for a written agreement from  
> the publisher stating explicitly what you're allowed to do with the data.  
> The only legal alternative is to restrict your corpora to illustrative  
> examples, i.e., to use at most a fraction (e.g., <=15% per document as a  
> rule of thumb) of the original text.
> But even this practice does not guarantee full legal security unless it is  
> confirmed by some kind of verdict.

Or, taking us back to the beginning of the thread, even safer to
annotate texts which don't have these restrictions :) 

Fran


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