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

From: Torzec Nicolas ATER LSI (nicolas.torzec@enssat.fr)
Date: Tue Jun 17 2003 - 10:55:48 MET DST

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    Dear Linguists and Lawyers,
    I have got the same "problem" with a large (tagged) monitor corpus of
    texts from french written on-line forums :
    - these messages are publically available in the sense that everybody
    can read and reuse them
    - each newsgroup server stores and uses its own copies of them
    - search engines use and exploit cached copies of them
    - ...

    So,
    - It is an illegal procedure to store these messages - in an anonymous
    way - in a database ?
    - It is an illegal procedure to exploit this corpus for research
    purposes ? (i.e. to realise linguistic studies and to develop NLP
    processing using corpus-based machine learning methods)
    - It is an illegal procedure to illustrate scientific articles with
    examples from this corpus ?

    Do I need to ask permission for each author to store and use its
    messages ? What if I mention the source and the author ? What about the
    copyrights?

    Moreover,
    - What if I want to make my corpus publically available for researchers
    ?
    - What if NLP processing developed from this corpus are to be integrated
    in commercial products ?

    Thank you in advances for your help...
    References, pointers and suggestions are welcome, especially for the
    legal aspects for France...

    Nicolas Torzec 

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Nicolas Torzec
PhD Student in NLP processing
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    delucca@nilc.icmc.usp.br wrote:
> 
> 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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