Frequently Asked Questions - Intellectual Property Rights and Business Models

CLARIN has already sketched out three types of license that could be used when an individual or an institution contributes resources to the CLARIN Infrastructure:

• publicly available resource
• resource available for academic use
• resource with restricted use

Additionally, there can be other conditions imposed, like non-commercial use, usage report (the end user must report the published articles which use the resources) and grant back (the end user must license back the modified versions of the resources).
Additional details will continue to be worked out during the preparatory phase. The official licensing model will be made available during the construction phase.

To distribute tools and resources to the research community through CLARIN, a Content Provider and a CLARIN Service Provider have to sign a Deposition Licensing Agreement. An End User intrested in the tools and resources distributed through CLARIN has to sign a Terms of Service agreement. In addition, the user may need to sign one or more End-User License Agreements to obtain access to individual tools or resources and a Data User Agreement in case there are some additional ethical restrictions on the data.

You do not have to be authenticated to use publicly available resources, even if they are distributed through the CLARIN Infrastructure.

No. In the construction phase, CLARIN will only provide the access to the resources. Each resource will entrusted to CLARIN together with its specific EULA (End Use License Agreement) that you will need to agree to.

Yes, depending on the nature of the end use of the resource, you will have access to resources licensed for academic or commercial purposes.

CLARIN maintains a catalogue of resources. Providers of these resources may be either CLARIN Members or outsiders. However, only resources submitted by CLARIN Members will be integrated into the infrastructure, since a certain amount of effort must be put into the integration. Resources provided by non-members will only be listed in the catalogue, they will not be available to the processing infrastructure.