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

From: Susana Sotillo IMAP (sotillos@mail.montclair.edu)
Date: Fri Jun 13 2003 - 17:37:24 MET DST

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    And if they sue, just take down their stuff.

    Susana

    Adam Kilgarriff wrote:

    > On the one hand, if your enemies are rich enough you'll lose.
    >
    > On the other you're probably less worth sueing than Google and they are
    > still going strong (anyone out there from Google? Your contribution
    > most welcome), and it doesn't sound like you are doing anything with any
    > salient legal difference. (Getting authors' agreements takes huge
    > amounts of resources and isn't feasible; listing references doesn't
    > help.)
    >
    > People do get unhappy about their pictures and audio being grabbed from
    > the web for use in other people's databases, and I have heard of cases
    > of web developers having to rein in their ambitions because objections
    > have been made. As yet, mercifully, that hasn't happened with text -
    > people don't seem alarmed at the idea that the text they publish on the
    > web gets re-used. Let's all pray it stays that way (though sooner or
    > later we're bound to get chancers trying it on - can't help fearing the
    > web is in its honeymoon phase, and the racketeers will mess it all up
    > before too long).
    >
    > In the meantime - take courage! Do it!
    >
    > Adam
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    >
    > > -----Original Message-----
    > > From: owner-corpora@lists.uib.no [mailto:owner-corpora@lists.uib.no]
    > On
    > > Behalf Of delucca@nilc.icmc.usp.br
    > > Sent: 13 June 2003 13:49
    > > To: corpora@hd.uib.no
    > > Subject: [Corpora-List] Legal aspects of compiling corpora
    > >
    > >
    > > Dear Linguists and Lawyers,
    > >
    > > I am troubled with Legal aspects of corpora compiling. I am in
    > > doubt if is an illegal procedure storage webpages (or part of them)
    > > in a database (see at http://www.dictionarium.com/project.htm),
    > > not available to public, and display its contents as short
    > collocations
    > > less than 100 characters by time by search method.
    > >
    > > On the other hand, the Internet search engines uses cached (temporary
    > ?)
    > > copies of the sites and display a short of the web pages.
    > >
    > > My procedure is wrong? Which the Legal difference? I need ask
    > permission
    > > for each website to storage its pages? If I mention the source and the
    > > author
    > > I will be protecting the copyrights?
    > >
    > >
    > > I look forward to hearing from you.
    > >
    > >
    > > Yours Sincerely,
    > >
    > >
    > > J. L. De Lucca
    > >
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