Abstract
In the digital age, the legal situation of the data produced in research projects that are relevant to an international research community such as the TEI is becoming more and more important. Because of differences in national laws, data produced and legally reusable in one country can be unprocessable in another. Therefore, ready-made licenses have become a powerful tool to facilitate digital research on an international scale. This paper discusses the concept of copyright in the context of global laws that make open licenses vital for ensuring the sustainability of (digital) research data. Three types of ready-made licenses (Creative Commons, Open Data Commons, and Digital Peer Publishing Licenses) and their specific strengths are examined. Finally, the history of the transformation of the abstracts of the 2016 TEI Conference and Members’ Meeting will serve as an example to show what proper licensing can do to push the research process.
Highlights
The legal situation of the data produced in research projects that are relevant to an international research community such as the TEI is becoming more and more important
The conference, been transformed into a TEI data set that has been published on GitHub, and in an eXistdb-powered web application. This is by any standard a wonderful development for a collection of textual data—and one that would not have been possible had the abstracts not been published under an open license, especially since their authors come from fourteen di erent countries
Open licenses can enable internationally legal long-term reusability and follow-up research on the data produced in projects that might otherwise die at the end of project funding
Summary
13 What Gindin says about the topic of personal data privacy is true for any legal text online, especially for free/open licenses: “[W]ith regard to online contracts and privacy notices, [there is] a trend toward the requirement of shorter documents that are easier to read and understand. This may be di cult for various reasons, including the need to address complex legal requirements and technical issues in such documents.”. Including the link to the license in the @target attribute of the element is essential when applying a license to a TEI le
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