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LEGAL CONSIDERATIONS IN LICENSING LANGUAGE RESOURCES

Summary/Abstract: The purpose of this article is to present the underlying legal considerations for licensing language resources. The authors concentrate on analysing language resources in the form of data bases, addressing the complex legal issues concerning copyright and related rights. Different frameworks for licensing language resources, such as META-NET, CLARIN and Creative Commons standard licences, are explained and compared in the context of Open Access. The article has been written in cooperation between linguists and lawyers and is practically oriented. Its purpose is to address the scholars and scholarly institutions associated with Estonian language resources and explain the fundamental principles of licensing objects of intellectual property. The authors highlight risks and problems, which can become serious obstacles, when combining and processing several language resources, each subjected to a different licence regime. The article provides an overview of the current situation regarding licensing of language resources in Estonia, establishes the main legal characteristics of the data base as an object of intellectual property rights, and offers guidance regarding the selection of a suitable set of standard rules for licensing such data bases.

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