Pclanglais commited on
Commit
34ebe21
·
verified ·
1 Parent(s): b05317b

Update README.md

Browse files
Files changed (1) hide show
  1. README.md +2 -2
README.md CHANGED
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ The collection contains 14,711,152,637 words (150,359 titles) recovered from mul
11
  ## Curation method
12
  The composition of the dataset adheres to the criteria for public domain works in the EU and, consequently, all Berne-countries for EU authors: any publication whose author is dead for more than 70 years. Additionally, the initial consolidation of public domain status for cultural heritage operates in the EU under the 2019 Copyright Directive (art. 14).
13
 
14
- As of March 2024, to limit rights verification, we have retained exclusively titles published prior to 1884.
15
 
16
  The corpus will be expanded at a later stage to encompass late 19th century and early 20th century publications, after checking for public domain validity.
17
 
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ The rationales for creation of this collection are multifold:
23
  * **Scientific**: We observe that the closure of training corpora represents a major barrier to AI research. Large language models face a real crisis of reproducibility.
24
  * **Legal**: With the adoption of the AI Act with its obligations in terms of copyright law compliance for the pretraining corpora, the European AI ecosystem will have to change its provenance practices.
25
  * **Cultural**: The linguistic diversity of the European Union is currently underrepresented. Unlike web archives, open, heritage, administrative, or scientific texts are often of high quality: they are long, multilingual, and editorialized publications.
26
- * **Economical**: Today, value capture is concentrated on players whose financial resources are already considerable, allowing them to collect or purchase data at a high price. Making a royalty-free corpus available to as many people as possible frees innovation in uses and minimizes economic dependencies on dominant actors.
27
 
28
  ## License
29
  The entire collection is in the public domain in all regions. This means that the patrimonial rights of each individual or collective right holders have expired.
 
11
  ## Curation method
12
  The composition of the dataset adheres to the criteria for public domain works in the EU and, consequently, all Berne-countries for EU authors: any publication whose author is dead for more than 70 years. Additionally, the initial consolidation of public domain status for cultural heritage operates in the EU under the 2019 Copyright Directive (art. 14).
13
 
14
+ As of June 2024, to limit rights verification, we have retained exclusively titles published prior to 1884.
15
 
16
  The corpus will be expanded at a later stage to encompass late 19th century and early 20th century publications, after checking for public domain validity.
17
 
 
23
  * **Scientific**: We observe that the closure of training corpora represents a major barrier to AI research. Large language models face a real crisis of reproducibility.
24
  * **Legal**: With the adoption of the AI Act with its obligations in terms of copyright law compliance for the pretraining corpora, the European AI ecosystem will have to change its provenance practices.
25
  * **Cultural**: The linguistic diversity of the European Union is currently underrepresented. Unlike web archives, open, heritage, administrative, or scientific texts are often of high quality: they are long, multilingual, and editorialized publications.
26
+ * **Economic**: Today, value capture is concentrated on players whose financial resources are already considerable, allowing them to collect or purchase data at a high price. Making a royalty-free corpus available to as many people as possible frees innovation in uses and minimizes economic dependencies on dominant actors.
27
 
28
  ## License
29
  The entire collection is in the public domain in all regions. This means that the patrimonial rights of each individual or collective right holders have expired.