An instance of this can be found at the following link:
http://corpus.byu.edu/oed/
BYU created an online searchable corpus of the English language dating back as far as the 1200's. The "Problem" was that they used texts from the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) to do so. As you can see on the page, the researchers at BYU tried to contact OED for several years, with no response until they received a takedown notice.
OED's reaction to BYU's creation of this corpus (which OED does not offer itself) has kept numerous linguistic researchers from having access to one of the more extensive corpora available, all because they have a "copyright" on data and documents, some of which date back over 800 years.
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An instance of this can be found at the following link:
http://corpus.byu.edu/oed/
BYU created an online searchable corpus of the English language dating back as far as the 1200's. The "Problem" was that they used texts from the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) to do so. As you can see on the page, the researchers at BYU tried to contact OED for several years, with no response until they received a takedown notice.
OED's reaction to BYU's creation of this corpus (which OED does not offer itself) has kept numerous linguistic researchers from having access to one of the more extensive corpora available, all because they have a "copyright" on data and documents, some of which date back over 800 years.