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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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