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

From: Mark Davies (mdavies@ilstu.edu)
Date: Thu Oct 24 2002 - 05:34:01 MET DST

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    RE: [Corpora-List] Legal aspects of corpora compilingSorry I'm jumping in so
    late on this.

    A couple of months ago I was talking to a lawyer/professor from another
    university, who specializes in copyright law as it applies to electronic
    materials and more specifically, electronic materials on the Web. I
    explained to him a project where I had a large amount of material in a
    web-based corpus, but users could only see the hits in very short context
    concordance lines. His view was that because the material that was made
    available to the end user was so radically different from the original
    format (i.e. complete texts), there was no problem at all. In addition, I
    emailed a second professor at another university, who also specializes in
    copyright law as it applies to the Internet, and she said basically the same
    thing.

    So that's perhaps a different view of the issue, at least from here in the
    United States. And as these two lawyers explained it to me, the copyright
    law that matters is the law of the country from which the corpus materials
    are distributed, NOT the country where the original texts were created OR
    the country from which end users access the materials. That's why I'm only
    concerned with U.S. law, as far as my corpus is concerned.



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