Next: Copyright Holder and User
Up: Legal Aspects, Contracts
Previous: Speaker and Producer
Contents
If you are producing the corpus for a client, you will most likely have a
contract signed with your client
before you start the project. Such a contract should as a
minimum define
- the intellectual property rights / copyrights of the speech corpus (belongs to the
client,
belongs to the producer, belongs to both parties),
- the rights of usage (who? for what purposes? on what time scale?
etc.),
- the right of distribution to third parties, and
- the royalties a third party has to pay for the usage of the corpus
and how these royalties are distributed among the copyright holders.
This sounds rather easy but be aware: things get complicated very
quickly if there are more than one client or more than
one producer, if there are
legal departments involved or if there are government agencies among the
funding institutions. Be prepared to start your project before all the
legal problems are solved, because if you have to wait, then your corpus
will be probably outdated before you start producing it.
There are other, more practical items to be defined in your contract that
should be mentioned here:
- The corpus specification (usually in the technical annex of your
contract).
- The time schedule and milestones of corpus production.
- The validation procedure (together with the definition of tolerance
measures).
Next: Copyright Holder and User
Up: Legal Aspects, Contracts
Previous: Speaker and Producer
Contents
BITS Projekt-Account
2004-06-01