Pawel Kamocki
Leibniz-Institut für Deutsche Sprache, Germany
Erik Ketzan
Brikbeck, University of London, United Kingdom
Julia Wildgans
Leibniz-Institut für Deutsche Sprache/Mannheim University, Germany
Andreas Witt
Leibniz-Institut für Deutsche Sprache/CLARIN ERIC
Download articlehttps://doi.org/10.3384/ecp2020172007Published in: Selected Papers from the CLARIN Annual Conference 2019
Linköping Electronic Conference Proceedings 172:7, p. 48-52
Published: 2020-07-03
ISBN: 978-91-7929-807-4
ISSN: 1650-3686 (print), 1650-3740 (online)
Providing online repositories for language resources is one of the main activities of CLARIN centres.
The legal framework regarding liability of Service Providers for content uploaded by their users has
recently been modified by the new Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market. A new category
of Service Providers, Online Content-Sharing Service Providers (OCSSPs), was added. It is subject
to a complex and strict framework, including the requirement to obtain licenses from rightholders for
the hosted content. This paper provides the background and effect of these changes to law and aims to
initiate a debate on how CLARIN repositories should navigate this new legal landscape.