This document provides an overview of a workshop on building legal literacies for text data mining. The workshop will teach scholars and academic staff about navigating copyright, contracts, privacy, ethics and other legal issues related to text data mining projects. It will be held in June 2020 at UC Berkeley and include in-person sessions, open resources and a published book. The goal is to empower researchers to confidently engage in text data mining while complying with relevant laws and policies.

1. Copyright & Fair Use for Digital Projects
Building Legal Literacies
for Text Data Mining
Overview for UCB
DH Working Group
Rachael Samberg
Stacy Reardon
Timothy Vollmer

2. Scholars are
turning content
into data

3. But scholars
(and
academic
staff, in
supporting
them) face
questions
about rights

4. TDM
Literacies
Contracts
Privacy
Copyright
Ethics &
Policy
Other
Statutes/
Use Cases

5. ● Exclusive rights
● For limited times
● But there are limitations
(e.g. fair use; facts/ideas
vs. expression) &
exceptions (e.g. fair use)
Copyright

6. Content Data about the content
TDM researchers can use copyrighted content!

7. ● Database agreements
● Website terms
● Archives agreements
Contracts

8. Ethics &
Policy
Privacy
Other
Statutes/
Use Cases
● International collaborations
● Computer Fraud and Abuse Act
● DRM & the DMCA
● Federal + State privacy statutes
● Right of publicity
● Indigenous knowledge
● Cultural heritage materials
● Endangered species protection

9. “Empower DH researchers and
professionals to be able to
confidently navigate law, policy,
ethics, and risk within digital
humanities text data mining
projects — so that they can
more easily engage in this type
of research and contribute to
the advancement of
knowledge.”

10. What is it?
● In-person institute at UC
Berkeley
● June 23-26, 2020
● design thinking approach
● Open Resources & Book
● Funded by NEH grant

11. What issues covered?
● Copyright
● Contracts & licensing
● Privacy
● Ethics
● Special use cases
● Risk

12. Who’s putting it on?
● Lead: UCB Library OSCS
● Project Team (16):
○ Humanities
researchers
○ Librarians
○ Legal experts

13. Who should apply?
● DH researchers
● DH professionals (librarians,
consultants, and other
institutional staff who aid
researchers in their TDM)
● Aiming for 16 researchers, 16
professionals
● Looking for “pairs”
● US-based

14. Logistics
● Application process: CV +
Letter of Interest
● Selection criteria online
● Apps due Dec 20, 2019
● Selections Feb 2020
● Aiming for zero-cost to
participants (with stipend)

15. More info
● Website:
https://buildinglltdm.org/
● E-mail:
contact-building-lltdm@googlegrou
ps.com