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Do some Kaggle contest organizers remove the data sets after the end of the contest?
In my understanding the data of Kaggle contests remain available indefinitely each with their own rules for sharing and publication. However, I only know of one instance where the data was removed. ...
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Can I take "open data" from a website like Quandl, modify it, and then resell it to clients?
The key question to ask whenever using data from an API or other source is "what licence is attached to the data?"
Quandl doesn't give any definitive answer, but it points to the original dataset's ...
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Where can I find a dataset containing legal documents?
CFPB Credit Card Agreements DB I think that is a service contract.
docracy - open source legal contracts Requires sign up
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Is Open Government data ever restricted to use within the country of origin?
Yes - see NASA's software for an example.
The release type
determines who can have a NASA software code.
If you meet the access
criteria for the code (as defined below), NASA can transfer the
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Where can I find a dataset containing legal documents?
This dataset contains labeled and unlabeled legal contracts for contract element extraction. The labeled dataset POS tags as well as annotations for different contract elements. You can refer to the ...
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Looking for datasets of complaints/requests filed at municipalities or cities
US City Open Data Census results for Service Requests should have what you need. And there's always Open 311, though I'm pretty sure its implementers will overlap with the census results.
There is ...
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Does this violate copyright of music/lyrics/sound?
As long as you don't keep the song anywhere on your servers, and have clear warnings "Do not transform songs that you are not allowed to transform", I believe you don't risk that much. You are just an ...
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sports-reference.com legality of using their data for other applications
The TOS are quite explicit you can't use their data without their consent and buy having a license.
Any use, reproduction, or distribution of this Site or Content without SRL's advance written ...
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Do some Kaggle contest organizers remove the data sets after the end of the contest?
The rules are different for different problems.
Having been active for some time now, this is what I've observed (Note: I play with completed competitions too for practise, and I personally haven't ...
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Employer's website is "web scraping" from another site, can I be liable even though I did not write that code?
I would have to disagree with the other answer. It has got to do with a lot more than that. Did your employer at the time know his website was scraping? If so, you are in no trouble at all. Writing ...
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Employer's website is "web scraping" from another site, can I be liable even though I did not write that code?
Firstly, the information provided in my answers is for general information purposes only and is not intended to be legal advice for individual situations and should not be relied on in taking legal ...
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The "right to mine" and scraping the web in EU
The article in the LSE blog you have pointed out seems to be a good overview, the problems seem to be not only UK specific:
Even with some legal barriers now removed, technical barriers remain
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Collecting data on private rooftop characteristics?
In Australia, a federal government agency (PSMA) has created a for-cost dataset called Geoscape that calculates information on private rooftops: specifically roof heights and materials.
I wanted to ...
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Types of license for OpenData
In the OpenDefinition site which is part of the OpenKnowledge Foundation, there is a list of licenses that can be considered as OpenData, and it indicates in which cases it should be used:
http://...
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Contact information (including email) for all US state legislators
Open States has all of this information. Here's contact information, including email for one of my senators.
You could scrape them or use their API.
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Is there an API to get the legality of alcohol (or legal drinking age) by geo location?
One option is to use a Github repo (fork your own) that other users can contribute to, which will help keep it up to date.
https://github.com/aihpos/drinkingage/blob/master/drinking.csv
Although ...
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Reasons for incarceration in the United States
https://www.prisonpolicy.org/reports/pie2022.html has such stats, shown as the Mass Incarceration: The Whole Pie 2022:
Data source: https://www.prisonpolicy.org/reports/pie2022.html#datasection
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List of Codified Laws from Around the World in Structured Format?
I don't know much but am wondering the same thing. Here are some resources to start, from the Library of Congress (copied for reference):
Free
American State Papers, 1789-1838 (Contains the ...
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Can I put open source data on a public github repo?
If you are generating the data then there is presumably no legal issue at all. Please add a license to the repo so that people know how they can (re)use the data and code!
If you are hosting data ...
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mimic iii: could a pretrained word2vec be made available?
I trained word embeddings based on mimic, e.g. for https://arxiv.org/abs/1610.09704 and https://arxiv.org/abs/1703.08705, but publicly releasing them would go against the agreement one signs when ...
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Types of license for OpenData
The datasets published in Zenodo I recently looked at had CC licenses. Here is a search for all open datasets in Zenodo. When you search in re3data (repository of research data repositories) and try ...
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Dataset of judicial decisions in France
You should be able to find it here - https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/
It is the official French government site for disseminating that type of information.
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Where can I find a dataset containing legal documents?
CUAD: An Expert-Annotated NLP Dataset for Legal Contract Review - https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.06268
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What is the coverage of Google case law for New York state?
"Complete state results will become publicly available this fall for California and New York," Harvard Law Library Readies Trove of Decisions for Digital Age
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Can I take "open data" from a website like Quandl, modify it, and then resell it to clients?
Quandl doesn't produced their own data and in their words "We respect data as IP. We believe that data publishers have the right to control the data they create." You're going to need to check ...
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Is it legal to make an open face recognition database of public people like celebrities?
Disclaimer: I'm not a lawyer and don't live in Germany.
I know of 2 possible legal issues with this (there might be more):
Bildrechte (or photograph rights). This says something along the lines that ...
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