The ELRA License Wizard

Valérie Mapelli, Vladimir Popescu, Lin Liu, Meritxell Fernández Barrera, Khalid Choukri

Abstract
To allow an easy understanding of the various licenses that exist for the use of Language Resources (ELRA’s, META-SHARE’s, Creative Commons’, etc.), ELRA has developed a License Wizardto help the right-holders share/distribute their resources under the appropriate license. It also aims to be exploited by users to better understand the legal obligations that apply in various licensing situations. The present paper elaborates on the License Wizard functionalities of this web configurator, which enables to select a number of legal features and obtain the user license adapted to the users selection, to define which user licenses they would like to select in order to distribute their Language Resources, to integrate the user license terms into a Distribution Agreement that could be proposed to ELRA or META-SHARE for further distribution through the ELRA Catalogue of Language Resources. Thanks to a flexible back office, the structure of the legal feature selection can easily be reviewed to include other features that may be relevant for other licenses. Integrating contributions from other initiatives thus aim to be one of the obvious next steps, with a special focus on CLARIN and Linked Data experiences.
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L16-1718
Volume:
Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'16)
Month:
May
Year:
2016
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Portorož, Slovenia
Editors:
Nicoletta Calzolari, Khalid Choukri, Thierry Declerck, Sara Goggi, Marko Grobelnik, Bente Maegaard, Joseph Mariani, Helene Mazo, Asuncion Moreno, Jan Odijk, Stelios Piperidis
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LREC
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European Language Resources Association (ELRA)
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Pages:
4535–4538
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https://aclanthology.org/L16-1718
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Valérie Mapelli, Vladimir Popescu, Lin Liu, Meritxell Fernández Barrera, and Khalid Choukri. 2016. The ELRA License Wizard. In Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'16), pages 4535–4538, Portorož, Slovenia. European Language Resources Association (ELRA).
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The ELRA License Wizard (Mapelli et al., LREC 2016)
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