RE: [Corpora-List] Legal aspects of corpora compiling

From: Tadeusz Piotrowski (tadpiotr@plusnet.pl)
Date: Thu Oct 03 2002 - 10:02:41 MET DST

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    This point was answered by native speakers of English, who discuss the
    issue from their particular viewpoint. However, copyright problems
    differ in various countries, and on one reading of the Polish law you
    can hold as much text as you want on your computer, provided it is used
    for research, and is not used in commerce. Some people differ with
    regard to this, of course. It would be interesting to know what the
    practice in other countries is, e.g. Germany or France.
     
    profesor Tadeusz Piotrowski
    Instytut Filologii Angielskiej
    Uniwersytet Opolski
    Oleska 48
    Opole, Poland

    -----Original Message-----
    From: owner-corpora@lists.uib.no [mailto:owner-corpora@lists.uib.no] On
    Behalf Of Amsler, Robert
    Sent: Tuesday, October 01, 2002 3:13 PM
    To: 'Adam Kilgarriff'; Rafal Górski
    Cc: corpora@hd.uib.no
    Subject: RE: [Corpora-List] Legal aspects of corpora compiling

    Adam's fine posting on copyright needs only one short addendum.

    It isn't ONLY cases in which someone is going to profit from the use of
    material
    that copyright issues can arise. You might think that if there is no
    profit
    to be made you're in the clear--this isn't the case. Copyright also
    covers
    situations in which the copyright holder suffers a loss of profit
    because your
    use of their material diminishes their ability to sell it at full price.

    This situation came up well before Napster, when universities were
    called to task for
    providing faculty with photocopies of articles out of journals to which
    their libraries subscribed,
    which the publishers felt was diminishing the personal subscriptions to
    those journals they could sell to faculty directly. There is now a
    considerable difference
    between "institutional" subscription rates and "personal" subscription
    rates to
    compensate copyright holders for losses due to library readership.



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