The Impact of Copyright and Personal Data Laws on the Creation and Use of Models for Language Technologies

Aleksei Kelli; Arvi Tavast; Krister Lindén; Kadri Vider; Ramunas Birštonas; Penny Labropoulou; Irene Kull; Gaabriel Tavits; Age Värv; Pavel Stranák

The Impact of Copyright and Personal Data Laws on the Creation and Use of Models for Language Technologies

Aleksei Kelli, Arvi Tavast, Krister Lindén, Kadri Vider, Ramunas Birštonas, Penny Labropoulou, Irene Kull, Gaabriel Tavits, Age Värv, Pavel Stranák

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The authors address the legal issues relating to the creation and use of language models. The article begins with an explanation of the development of language technologies. The authors analyse the technological process within the framework copyright, related rights and personal data protection law. The authors also cover commercial use of language models. The authors’ main argument is that legal restrictions applicable to language data containing copyrighted material and personal data usually do not apply to language models. Language models are generally not considered derivative works. Due to a wide range of language models, this position is not absolute.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Selected Papers from the CLARIN Annual Conference 2019
Number of pages	13
Publisher	Linköping University Electronic Press
Publication date	3 Jul 2020
Pages	53-65
ISBN (Electronic)	978-91-7929-807-4
Publication status	Published - 3 Jul 2020
MoE publication type	A4 Article in conference proceedings

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Name	Linköping Electronic Conference Proceedings
Publisher	Linköping University Press
ISSN (Electronic)	1650-3740

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Kelli, A., Tavast, A., Lindén, K., Vider, K., Birštonas, R., Labropoulou, P., Kull, I., Tavits, G., Värv, A., & Stranák, P. (2020). The Impact of Copyright and Personal Data Laws on the Creation and Use of Models for Language Technologies. In Selected Papers from the CLARIN Annual Conference 2019 (pp. 53-65). (Linköping Electronic Conference Proceedings). Linköping University Electronic Press.

Kelli, Aleksei ; Tavast, Arvi ; Lindén, Krister ; Vider, Kadri ; Birštonas, Ramunas ; Labropoulou, Penny ; Kull, Irene ; Tavits, Gaabriel ; Värv, Age ; Stranák, Pavel. / The Impact of Copyright and Personal Data Laws on the Creation and Use of Models for Language Technologies. Selected Papers from the CLARIN Annual Conference 2019. Linköping University Electronic Press, 2020. pp. 53-65 (Linköping Electronic Conference Proceedings).

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The Impact of Copyright and Personal Data Laws on the Creation and Use of Models for Language Technologies

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