CLARIN-D Language Resources Legal Issues Bibliography

Some general overviews:

• Prodromos Tsiavos, Stelios Piperidis, Maria Gavrilidou, Penny Labropoulou, Tasos Patrikakos. 2014. Legal framework of textual data processing for Machine Translation and Language Technology research and development activities. 2014. Available as WikiBook.

• Madeleine de Cock Buning, Barbara van Dinther, Christina H. Jepperson-de Boer, Allard Ringnalda. 2011. "The legal status of research data in the Knowledge Exchange partner countries.".
• Annex 1: The legal status of research data in the Netherlands.
• Annex 2: The legal status of research data in Denmark.
• Annex 3: The legal status of research data in Germany.
• Annex 4: The legal status of research data in the United Kingdom. [note - this precedes the changes to UK law in 2014, including the text and data mining exception]

• Paul Klimpel, John Weitzmann. 2014. Rechtliche Rahmenbedingungen für Digitalisierungsprojekte von Gedächtnisinstitutionen. .

• Rainer Kuhlen, Michael Seadle, et al. 2011. Zur urheberrechtlichen Gestaltung von Repositorien: Handreichung für Universitäten, Forschungszentren und andere Bildungseinrichtungen.

• Daniel Schmidutz, Lorna Ryan, Anje Müller Gjesdal, Koenraad De Smedt. Data Service Infrastructure for the Social Sciences and Humanities. Link.
  

 

1) Legal Issues and Language Resources

• Steven Bird. 2009. Natural Language Processing and Linguistic Fieldwork. Computational Linguistics, 35, 469-474. .
• Christopher Cieri, Khalid Choukri, Nicoletta Calzolari, D. Terence Langendoen, Johannes Leveling, Martha Palmer, Nancy Ide and James Pustejovsky. 2010. A Road Map for Interoperable Language Resource Metadata. Proceedings of LREC 2010, 17-23 May 2010, Valletta, Malta. .
• Doug Cooper. 2010. Position Statement on Open Linguistic Data Issues.
• Louise Corti, Annette Day, Gill Backhouse. "Confidentiality and Informed Consent: Issues for Consideration in the Preservation of and Provision of Access to Qualitative Data Archives." Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung / Forum: Qualitative Social Research, 1(3), Art. 7..
• Orphée De Clercq, Maribel Montero Perez. 2010. "Data Collection and IPR in Multilingual Parallel Corpora Dutch Parallel Corpus.".
• Nancy Ide and Keith Suderman. 2006. Integrating Linguistic Resources: The American National Corpus Model. Proceedings of LREC'06, Genoa. . [see especially section 3 on the Open Linguistic Infrastructure]
• Aleksei Kelli, Arvi Tavast, Heiki Pisuke. 2012. Copyright and Constitutional Aspects of Digital Language Resources: The Estonian Approach. Juridica International XIX/2012, pp. 40-48..
• Paweł Kamocki and Erik Ketzan. 2016-2017. CLARIN Legal Information Platform.
• Cornelius H. A. Koster and Stefan Gradmann. 2004. The language belongs to the People!. Proceedings of LREC’04. Lisbon, Portugal. .
• Timm Lehmberg, Georg Rehm, Andreas Witt, Felix Zimmerman. 2008. "Digital Text Collections, Linguistic Research Data, and Mashups: Notes on the Legal Situation." Library Trends, Vol. 57, No. 1, Summer 2008, pp. 52-71. .
• Ben Medlock. "An Introduction to NLP-based Textual Anonymisation." 2006. Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2006), Genoa, Italy. Ed. N. Calzolari, K. Choukri, A. Gangemi, J. Mariani, B. Maegaard, J. Odjik and D. Tapias. pp. 1051-1056. .
• Georg Rehm, Andreas Witt, Erhard Hinrichs, Timm Lehmberg, Christian Chiarcos, Felix Zimmermann, Heike Zinsmeister, Johannes Dellert. 2007. "Digital Text Resources for the Humanities - Legal Issues." Digital Humanities 2007, pp. 161-169.
• Martin Reynaert, Nelleke Oostdijk, Orphée De Clercq, Henk van den Heuvel, Franciska de Jong. 2010. "Balancing SoNaR: IPR versus Processing Issues in a 500-Million-Word Written Dutch Reference Corpus." .
• Frances Rock. 2001. "Policy and Practice in the Anonymisation of Linguistic Data." International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 6.1, pp. 1-26.
• Daniel Schmidutz, Lorna Ryan, Anje Müller Gjesdal, Koenraad De Smedt. Data Service Infrastructure for the Social Sciences and Humanities. (DASISH deliverable). 
• Gary Simons and Steven Bird. 2008. Toward a global infrastructure for the sustainability of language resources. Proceedings of the 22nd Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation, 20-22 November 2008, Cebu City, Philippines. pp 87-100.
• Oliver Streiter, Kevin Scannell and Mathias Stuflesser. 2006. Implementing NLP Projects for Non-Central Languages: Instructions for Funding Bodies, Strategies for Developers. Machine Translation 20 (2006), no. 4, 267-289. 
• Prodromos Tsiavos, Stelios Piperidis, Maria Gavrilidou, Penny Labropoulou, Tasos Patrikakos. 2014. Legal framework of textual data processing for Machine Translation and Language Technology research and development activities. 2014. Available as a WikiBook

2) Text & Data Mining (TDM) in General

• Lucie Guibault, Ian Hargreaves, Christian Handke, Peggy Valcke, Bertin Martens. 2014. Standardisation in the area of innovation and technological development, notable in the field of Text and Data Mining, report from the Expert Group, European Commission, Luxembourg: Publications Office of the European Union. .
• Ian Hargreaves. 2011. Digital Opportunity: A Review of Intellectual Property and Growth. .
• Modernising Copyright: A modern, robust and flexible framework; Government response to consultation on copyright exceptions and clarifying copyright law. 2012. .

3) Legal Issues and Research Data in General

• D. Burk, Intellectual Property in the Context of e-Science. .
• Mark J. Davison, The Legal Protection of Databases (Cambridge University Press, 2003).
• Madeleine de Cock Buning, Barbara van Dinther, Christina H. Jepperson-de Boer, Allard Ringnalda. 2011. "The legal status of research data in the Knowledge Exchange partner countries.".
  • Annex 1: The legal status of research data in the Netherlands.
  • Annex 2: The legal status of research data in Denmark.
  • Annex 3: The legal status of research data in Germany.
  • Annex 4: The legal status of research data in the United Kingdom. 

• Mark Elam; Hans Glimell, Knowledge Society as the Republic of Science Enlarged: The Case of Sweden. .
• Harry Enke, Norman Fiedler, Thomas Fischer, Timo Gnadt, Erik Ketzan, Jens Ludwig, Torsten Rathmann, Gabriel Stöckle, Florian Schintke. 2013. Leitfaden zum Forschungsdaten-Management ("Guidelines for research data management"). Verlag Werner Hülsbusch, Glückstadt. Available under Creative Commons license here.
• Brian F. Fitzgerald (ed), Legal Framework for e-Research – Realizing the Potential. .
• Lucie Guibault and Andreas Wiebe, ed. 2013. Safe to be open: Study on the protection of research data and recommendations for access and usage, OpenAIRE+. .
• Michael Häder. 2009. "Der Datenschutz in den Sozialwissenschaften: Anmerkungen zur Praxis sozialwissenschaftlicher Erhebungen und Datenverarbeitung in Deutschland" ("Personal data protection in the social sciences"). RatSWD Working Paper Series. .
• Thomas Hartmann, "Zur urheberrechtlichen Schutzfähigkeit von Forschungsdaten". InTeR 2013, 199-202.
• Maree Heffernan, Scott Kiel-Chisholm, Australian Survey on Legal Issues Facing e-Research. .
• James M. Hudson, Amy Bruckman, Using Empirical Data to Reason About Internet Research Ethics. .
• Paul E. Kalb, Kristin Graham Koehler, Legal Issues in Scientific Research. .
• Pawel Kamocki. 2014. Legal Issues in Research Data Collection and Sharing. EUDAT (European Data Infrastructure) Training Materials. .
• Erik Ketzan, Legal Issues in Digital Humanities: A Crash Course. .
• Melissa Levine, Digital Humanities DH Curation, Policy, Practice and Law. .
• Sören Rieger, Der rechtliche Schutz wissenschaftlicher Datenbanken.
• V. Stodden, Data Sharing in Social Science Repositories: Facilitating Reproducible Computational Research. .
• Victoria Stodden, The Legal Framework for Reproducible Scientific Research. .
• Paul F. Uhlir, Peter Schroeder, Open Data for Global Science. .

 

4) Official Documents

• European Commission Recommendation of 25.0.2018 on access to and preservation of scientific information.
• Green Paper on Copyright in the Knowledge Economy (2008).
• Communication from the Commission of 19.10.2009: Copyright in the Knowledge Economy.

 

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