Find out more about the legal documents that stipulate the procesess and activities inside the CLARIN:EL Research Infrastructure and get important information on the licencing of language resources shared through CLARIN:EL.
Procesess and activities taking place inside the CLARIN:EL Research Infrastructure are stipulated by a set of legal document templates designed to help all stakeholders (resource owners, providers/distributors and end-users) work in a friendly and transparent environment.
Here, you can find all the legal documents concerning the development, operation and maintainance of the CLARIN:EL Research Infrastructure:
- CLARIN:EL Network Statutes (in Greek): Stating the code of conduct and the relations between CLARIN:EL members within the Research Infrastructure (RI).
Licensing LRs and more specifically selecting a licence of use that legally binds the End-User to the terms and conditions of using the resource is a key concern of the CLARIN:EL Research Infrastructure.
With a firm orientation towards the creation of an openness culture and the relevant ecosystem for LRs, CLARIN:EL Research Infrastructure fosters Open Data policies. Thus, resources and services should ideally be open or shared at least for research purposes. In all cases, LRs must be offered according to certain formal legal conditions and terms clearly indicated at the licence text. Each LR may be associated with more than one licence, if access to it is given under different conditions for different users and/or intended uses.
Access to the LRs and processing services is open to all (i.e. registered and unregistered users) through the catalogue of the CLARIN:EL Central Inventory, in accordance to their relevant licensing terms. In addition, CLARIN:EL registered users have further access to the LRs and processing services through the Institutional Repository to which they belong, always in accordance to the relevant licensing terms.
CLARIN:EL metadata are licenced under the Creative Commons Attribution International licence (CC-BY) version 4.0 or higher. All CLARIN:EL users are obliged to allow the harvesting of their metadata.
To limit the complexity of licensing, a range of recommended license setups are provided by CLARIN:EL in the form of templates for the LR providers to choose from.
The CLARIN:EL model licensing scheme, with a firm orientation towards the creation of an openness culture and the relevant ecosystem for LRs, is organised on the following axes:
- Creative Commons licences (CC, starting with Creative Commons Zero (CC-0) and all possible combinations along the CC differentiation of rights of use) for datasets and Free Open Source Software (FOSS) licences for s/w are the first level of legal machinery applied.
- The second legal layer is a set of licenses that allow use and exploitation of the Resources while permitting the LR Owner to have full control over the Resource distribution. These META-SHARE No Redistribution licences will effectively help get “closed” resources safely out to the community.
Based on these assumptions and guidelines, the following sets of licensing templates are proposed:
The standard and well documented legal tool for sharing knowledge and creativity (links below point to the Creative Commons website). The proposed version is the most recent one, i.e. v4.0.
One page overview of the Creative Commons licences and their attributes
FOSS licences are recommended for the licencing of free and open-source software:
META-SHARE No Redistribution set covers all expected combinations of licencing attributes excluding the distribution of the original resource(s). Before using any of the META-SHARE NoRedistribution licences, please contact the Legal Helpdesk for assistance. We will provide you with guidance as to which licence may be the most appropriate for you and how you could implement it.
- META-SHARE NoRedistribution
- META-SHARE NoRedistribution_For-a-Fee
- META-SHARE NoRedistribution NoDerivatives_For-a-fee
- META-SHARE NoRedistribution NoDerivatives
- META-SHARE NonCommercial NoRedistribution NoDerivatives_For-a-fee
- META-SHARE NonCommercial NoRedistribution NoDerivatives
- META-SHARE NonCommercial NoRedistribution_For-a-Fee
- META-SHARE NonCommercial NoRedistribution
One page overview of the MS-NoRed licences and their attributes