[Corpora-List] Copyright question again

[Mcenery, Tony]

Thanks to all who have contributed to this thread - I have really enjoyed it. Khalid made a passing reference to the UK position - this has recently become quite permissive for non-commercial text mining research, but we have been debating back and forth in Lancaster exactly what this means for corpus linguists. Due to the case-law nature of English Law we won't really know until some cases have been brought forward and we are able to see how the laws/regulations are to be interpreted, hence Khalid's comment about the situation being unclear, I assume. Anyway, for those of you interested in the new exceptions to copyright in the UK, you can read all about it here:

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/375951/Education_and_Teaching.pdf


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Sent: 06 January 2015 13:36
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Subject: Re: [Corpora-List] Copyright question again


Marc Brysbaert wrote:


>> For what it is worth, in my experience word frequency lists and N-gram lists are not a problem.

I agree. I've distributed COCA/COHA word frequency (http://www.wordfrequency.info) and n-grams (http://www.ngrams.info) data for several years now, and I've never had any issues.


>> The big problem we are encountering is that currently there is no guidance about whether corpora can be shared. As a result, nearly all corpora assembled remain next to inaccessible, meaning that everyone has to collect their own corpus. This is a lot of needless work and also means that little cumulative work can be done.


I've also been distributing "full-text" data from 450 million word COCA and the 1.9 billion word GloWbE (http://corpus.byu.edu/glowbe) for a while now, and again no problems to this point. There is a "twist", though, in terms of how the full-text data has been slightly altered to avoid copyright problems:


http://corpus.byu.edu/full-text/limitations.asp


​Best,


Mark D.


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** Historical linguistics // Language variation **
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