Press Release - Immediate - Paris, France, April 2, 2015
Opening of the ELRA License Wizard
ELRA announces the opening of the License Wizard @ http://wizard.elda.org.
ELRA is deploying a License Wizard to:
* support the right-holders in finding the appropriate licenses under
which to share/distribute their Language Resources, and
* clarify the legal obligations applicable in various licensing
situations.
Currently, the License Wizard allows the user to choose among several
licenses that exist for the use of Language Resources: ELRA, Creative
Commons and META-SHARE.
More will be added.
The License Wizard works as a web configurator that helps Right
Holders/Users:
- to select a number of legal features and obtain the user license
adapted to their 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
(http://catalogue.elra.info, www.meta-share.eu).
*Background*
From the very beginning, ELRA has come across all types of legal issues
that arise when exchanging and sharing Language Resources. The
association has devoted huge efforts to streamline the licensing
processes while continuously monitoring the impacts of regulation
changes on the HLT community activities. The first major step was to
come up with a few licenses for both the research and the industrial
sectors to use the resources available within the ELRA catalogue.
Recently, its strong involvement in the META-SHARE infrastructure led to
designing and drafting a small set of licenses, inspired by the ELRA
licenses but also accounting for the new trends of permissive licenses
and free resources, represented in particular by the Creative Commons.
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About ELRA
The European Language Resources Association (ELRA) is a non-profit
making organization founded by the European Commission in 1995, with the
mission of providing a clearing house for language resources and
promoting Human Language Technologies (HLT). To find out more about
ELRA, please visit www.elra.info.
The License Wizard portal can be accessed from http://wizard.elra.info
Contact: [email protected]
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