I notice the United Nations corpus mentioned in this post is public domain as stated in the first page of the web site. I am not a copyright expert. May I know whether this corpus is clear of license issue? There are millions of sentences in the corpus. My community would be crazily happy to have i…

Hi, I can check with our legal team in our next meeting, but on their terms of use I read: When using the United Nations Corpus, the user must acknowledge the United Nations as the source of the information From past inquiries my understanding is that attribution is not compatible with CC-0 Pub…

Thank you very much. The EU Parliament corpus has a similar statement at the front page: “Please cite the paper, if you use this corpus in your work”. As this corpus is fine for CV, hope the UN one is also fine.

The corpus is not public domain obviously. The result of cleaning and sorting out the sentences from PD documents into a corpus can absolutely be licensed. You can do whatever you want with PD materials, including license the work out of it. We should look for those PD documents which the corpus or…

Coming back after consultation with our legal team. No, unfortunately we can’t use this corpus. Anything with an attribution requirement is not consistent with CC0 (this is why CC-BY can’t go into Common Voice). About if this corpus should be usable because it is similar to an EU corpus: There’s …

Thanks @nukeador Time to continue collecting sentences :cry:

I brought the idea of using this corpus, and I still believe we can use it. Here is why I think is true. UN documents is public domain, we can all agree on that. With respect to database and copyright rights, the whole corpus is protected by both. There is copyright in marking parallel corpus, thi…

@pdsfjd our legal team reviewed the terms on the UN site, and as I commented previously: [image] nukeador: Anything with an attribution requirement is not consistent with CC0 (this is why CC-BY can’t go into Common Voice). Unless this is changed on the source of this corpus (the UN site) we …

Does United Nations Parallel Corpus clear of license issue?

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Does United Nations Parallel Corpus clear of license issue?

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