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Copyright Holder and User

Once your speech corpus has been finished and you have checked out the possibilities of distributing it to others, the next legal relationship to consider is that of the copyright holder(s) and the user(s) of the resource. As with software the copyright holders of language resources want to protect themselves against unauthorized copying. There are no technical ways to protect a speech corpus against unauthorized copying; it would hinder the usage of the data too much. On the other hand it is almost impossible to sue a user for copying speech data: in most cases your `customers' will not even be in your country and proof of abuse will be hard to establish. The best thing you can do is that Both methods are probably legally unsafe. However, the user of a speech corpus is in most cases not a private person but either a company or a scientific institution. It is not very likely that these types of `customers' will explicitly commit fraud by re-distributing your speech corpus.


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