Re: Corpora: Copyrights

Peter Littlechild (peter.littlechild@swift.com)
Wed, 24 Nov 1999 10:20:09 +0100

Yes, it's probably prudent to design your database so that items can be removed,
if necessary, without traumatizing the remainder - and at low cost.

"P. Timothy Ervin" wrote:
>
> I'm not a copyright expert, but I do remember that one homepage, The Holden
> Server, which simply put up a random quotation from American writer J. D.
> Salinger's _The Catcher in the Rye_, had to be taken down for copyright
> infringement. This may be a special case, but it certainly fits your second
> and third concern.
>
> Troublesome as it may seem, you would probably still need to check with the
> copyright holders for your project.
>
> For what it's worth.
>
> Cheers,
>
> P. Timothy Ervin
> Yasuda Women's University
> Hiroshima, Japan
>
> > My question concerns getting copyrights for the texts. In talking with a
> > person at the granting agency they indicated that it would probably be
> > necessary to get written permission from the publishers of each of the 122
> > texts on the corpus. I myself wonder if this is really necessary or
> > feasible, however, because of a number of factors, e.g.:

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