Using BBC Igbo news sentences

[chrisemezue]

My team and I are trying to include Igbo into the Common Voice. For that we need sentences.

One great source of original IGbo sentences is BBC Igbo
Due to the public license requirement I want to know We can go ahead with using sentences from BBC Igbo. Thank You

[bozden (Bülent Özden)]

Hi @chrisemezue, please read the following topic and this answer:

Scraping news sites/subtitles -- license question

Yeah, given that it’s an international project we need to be really careful about copyright laws that only apply in one country, because there’s no way of knowing if a Thai news article is actually a syndication / translation of an item from a British/American/whatever newswire service that does have copyright and terms of service attached. As a rule, unless the source itself explicitly specifies that the text is public domain / CC0 we’re unlikely to accept it.

As far as I can see at the bottom of BBC site it states “copyright BBC”.

[heyhillary (Hillary (Community Manager, Common Voice))]

Hey @chrisemezue,

Welcome to the Common Voice Discourse.

Can I suggest that you reach out to the editor or team at BBC Igbo, to ask if they would like to give some text under public licence, using the CC0 Waiver process ?

More details on this process can be found in the Community Playbook: https://common-voice.github.io/community-playbook/sub_pages/cc0waiver_process.html

Other options

You could use the sentence extractor to collect some sentences from - https://ig.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asụ̀sụ̀_Ìgbò

Alternatively, you might want to create original text under public licence under the sentence collector process. You could organise a community event such as a poetry jam.

[chrisemezue]

@heyhillary

give some text under public licence, using the CC0 Waiver process

Thank You, I have sent them an email about it.