1. Krister Lindén and Ville Oksanen FINCLARIN / University of Helsinki
Building Shared Language Research Environments inside the European Union
Krister Lindén and Ville Oksanen
FINCLARIN / University of Helsinki

2. Outline BACKGROUND LEGAL TRENDS AND MOVEMENTS CLARIN PROPOSAL
AUTHENTICATION AND AUTHORIZATION
CLARIN LEGAL MODEL AND FIELD TEST
EXTENSION OF THE CLARIN MODEL
BUSINESS MODELS
WHAT SEPARATES US FROM LIBRARIES?
CLARIN SINGLE SIGN-ON PLANS
CONCLUSION

3. A. BACKGROUND
Publicly available open-source tools and resources on the internet.
Resource repositories for Academic Research
E.g. Dobes (MPI), SOAS (UK),
Spåkbanken (UG/Sweden),
Tektslabbet (UiO/Norway),
Kielipankki (CSC/Finland),
...
Restricted resources available to individual legal entities possibly for a fee
E.g. LDC and ELDA.

4. B. LEGAL TRENDS AND MOVEMENTS
GNU and CC licensing of open-source software is becoming more and more common all over the world.
In EU, exceptions for academic researchers to the IPR and Personal Data legislation are possible but not always implemented in the individual countries. In the US, it is already in place and federally implemented.
Some countries have taken the stance: "If you need a group license, buy it!", e.g. Finland.

5. Efforts in the EU CLARIN Preparatory Phase META-NET / META-SHARE
EC project
META-NET / META-SHARE
EC project
CLARIN ERIC
2012-
META-TRUST
12 September 2012
IPR Issues

6. C. CLARIN PROPOSAL
Classify the existing licenses into three main categories:
PUB(licly) available resources
Resources licensed to ACA(demic) researchers
RES(tricted) resources requiring individual authorization
CLARIN can legally and without additional effort maintain the categories PUB and RES. The CLARIN effort is focused on providing and extending the ACA category.

7. Resource Categories or “Laundry Symbols”
Other
CC0, GPL, LGPL, BY
CC-nc
~CC-sa
CC-nd,
opt. fee
additional conditions, fee, …
mandatory fee,
proprietary conditions

8. D. AUTHENTICATION AND AUTHORIZATION
The technical requirements for the three categories are:
PUB -authentication -authorization
ACA +authentication -authorization
RES +authentication +authorization
For ACA
The authentication is provided by an identity service provider providing access only for academic researchers
Resource owners grant a license to all academic researchers who accept certain conditions in the Terms of Service when logging in
ToS explains the meaning of the “Laundry Symbols”
For the ACA licenses, a resource owner grants all CLARIN authenticated academic researchers access to his resources provided certain conditions have been agreed to by the researcher. If these conditions are part of the ToS (= Terms of Service), which includes a general EULA signed during the login procedure, such resources will be accessible without further procedures to the authenticated academic researchers for use according to their "Laundry Symbols", i.e. NC, INF or RED.
Resources in the PUB category are provided via CLARIN to the research community mostly for convenience. PUB resources may also be offered for download on the CLARIN external web page without an authenticated login.

9. Resource Categories within CLARIN
Other
CC0, GPL, LGPL,
CC-by
CC-nc
~CC-sa
e.g.
CC-nd,
opt. fee
additional conditions, optional fee, …
mandatory fee,
proprietary conditions

10. E. CLARIN LEGAL MODEL AND FIELD TEST
PUB resources are made available through CLARIN mainly for the convenience of the research community.
ACA licenses are group licenses made available by the resource provider to authenticated academic researchers.
Some of the ACA licenses may contain special conditions requiring the user to electronically accept additional conditions for certain resource collections.
Automatic access to ACA resources can be granted if the individual is known through an identity provider, and if it can be guarantee that the identity provider grants access only to academic researchers.

11. E. CLARIN LEGAL MODEL cont.
Resources in the RES category require individual authorization by the resource owner bringing an essential amount of legacy resources within reach of the CLARIN community.
The RES category also provides the procedure for getting access to resources for
an individual non-standard research purpose or
some other special purpose that needs the attention of the resource owner, e.g. the mandatory payment of a fee.
Automatic access to ACA resources can be granted if the individual is known through an identity provider, and if it can be guarantee that the identity provider grants access only to academic researchers.

12. Field testing (~150/800 existing resources in the LRT Registry)

13. Detailed breakdown

14. Detailed breakdown (incl. the 650 non-classfied resources)

15. F. EXTENSION OF THE CLARIN MODEL
CLARIN centres may accept logins from identity providers for non-academic groups, but in that case the option to automatically access resources for the academic community will not be offered.
Resource requests by non-academic users will by default be handled through the procedure for granting access to RES resources.
It is of course possible that non-academic entities, e.g. commercial companies or government agencies, negotiate a separate category for business-friendly resources, e.g. META-SHARE
Automatic access to ACA resources can be granted if the individual is known through an identity provider, and if it can be guarantee that the identity provider grants access only to academic researchers.

16. Resource Categories in META-SHARE www.meta-net.eu/meta-shareBY
BYSA
BYND
BYNC
BYNC SA
BYNC ND
Other:
GPL
LGPL
BSD…
+/- fee
Proprietary CC
META-SHARE
“LT community”
META-SHARE no redistribution

17. G. BUSINESS MODELS
The CLARIN centres will be supported by national funding with the specific goal to provide resources and tools for academic research purposes.
CLARIN centres in EU will grant access to their resources to academic researchers from all the participating countries on a fair exchange basis.
META-SHARE will be supported by the participating institutions offering some of the resources for download and others via access links to third party sites.

18. H. WHAT SEPARATES CLARIN AND META-SHARE FROM LIBRARIES AND SHOPS?
Libraries have the right to grant access to resources without asking the owner using a standard agreement for which there is national funding.
ELDA and LDC are shops that have standard agreements for resources available for a fee.
While CLARIN and META-SHARE currently do not plan to charge for their services, they will have procedures for granting access to resources available for a fee based on owner authorization, i.e. like market places with stands for shop-owners.

19. I. CLARIN SINGLE SIGN-ON PLANS
Desirable stages for CLARIN single sign-on:
CLARIN centres currently accept logins from several identity federations (to be united under EduGain)
CLARIN centres should accept automatic logins from other CLARIN centres via the identity credentials given on login to one centre
A CLARIN centre may launch an application that accesses resources in another centre, e.g. distributed content search. For this, there may be two different solutions:
Access rights are checked at the site of the resource.
Access rights are checked at the site of launch.
1. Metaphorically they act as nations recognizing the passports of other countries.
2. Metaphorically speaking the centers have their own "Schengen agreement" so that the user can move from one center to the other without showing his passport as long as the identity is known.
3a. Metaphorically this is the postal package model, where access to the delivery address is checked at the destination.
3b. Metaphorically this is the airport model, where access to a country is checked beforehand to avoid unnecessary traffic.

20. J. CONCLUSION
PUB resources are publicly available on the internet and they need to be made available mostly for convenience.
ACA resources are resources for which an academic group license has been prepared and which can be electronically signed by a known academic researcher without further scrutiny by the resource owner.
Access to RES resources are granted on an individual basis with the approval of the resource owner.
While CLARIN caters primarily to academic users, META-SHARE is a CC-inspired framework for resources also available to non-academic users.