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What is the copyright status of the conference talk videos? #1228

Open elliottd opened 3 years ago

elliottd commented 3 years ago

Issue description

On the current version of the ACL Anthology website, the copyright status of recorded conference talks is not clear.

Steps to reproduce the issue

  1. Visit the ACL Anthology website.
  2. Read the copyright statement in the footer.
  3. Feel uncertain about whether conference talks are classed as ACL Materials.

What's the expected result?

Clarity about whether the conference talks are classed as ACL Materials and are available under the CC BY 4.0 license.

akoehn commented 3 years ago

The unsatisfying answer is probably that the people being filmed have consent to publish the videos but nothing else. Therefore you cannot assume that there is any license for you.

The difference to the other materials is that the videos are not hosted by the anthology (and we all for cc-by upon upload).

We can (and probably should) clarify that but cannot change it.

mbollmann commented 3 years ago

Cross-referencing #477 here. I've looked at ACL 2020 as an example and could find no indication of copyright or licensing of videos, which I think is not ideal. If anyone is able to clarify what the copyright situation around these videos is, it should be the ACL who made the contracts with those companies, and got consent from the presenters. (Presumably – I've presented at ACL 2020 but can't find any record of what exactly I've consented to or not with regard to my talk...)