Corpora: Copyright question

From: Paul Thompson (p.a.thompson@reading.ac.uk)
Date: Thu Aug 03 2000 - 19:13:51 MET DST

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    I am planning to do some linguistic research on journal articles in
    different disciplines, and I want to make up a mini-corpus of articles
    from different journals by scanning them and then creating tagged
    versions. This is purely for research purposes; I don't plan to make the
    corpus available outside of the department that I work in.

    My question is: Do I need to get copyright clearance from all the
    publishers? I would guess that the answer is 'yes', but in none of the
    comparable studies that I have read have I seen any acknowledgement of
    the permission of the publishers to store these texts in digital form
    (for research purposes).

    This question may well have been asked before, and I don't want to clog
    up people's mailboxes, so please send your answers directly to me - I
    will post a summary later.

    Thanks

    Paul

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