Case Study
Extrapolating from the issues analyzed in the round tables, the practitioners’ statements, and the experts’ written analyses, the Project Team developed a hypothetical case study reflective of “typical” cross-border LLTDM issues that U.S.-based practitioners encounter. The case study provides basic guidance to support U.S. researchers in navigating cross-border TDM issues, while also highlighting questions that would benefit from further research.
The case study examines cross-border copyright, contracts, and privacy & ethics variables across two distinct paradigms: first, a situation where U.S.-based researchers perform all TDM acts in the U.S., and second, a situation where U.S.-based researchers engage with collaborators abroad, or otherwise perform TDM acts in both U.S. and abroad.
White Paper
The LLTDM-X white paper provides a comprehensive description phone number database of the project, including origins and goals, contributors, activities, and outcomes. Of particular note are several project takeaways and recommendations, which the project team hopes will help inform future research and action to support cross-border text data mining. Project takeaways touched on seven key themes:
Uncertainty about cross-border LLTDM issues indeed hinders U.S. TDM researchers, confirming the need for education about cross-border legal issues;
The expansion of education regarding U.S. LLTDM literacies remains essential, and should continue in parallel to cross-border education;
Disparities in national copyright, contracts, and privacy laws may incentivize TDM researcher “forum shopping” and exacerbate research bias;
License agreements (and the concept of “contractual override”) often dominate the overall analysis of cross-border TDM permissibility;
Emerging lawsuits about generative artificial intelligence may impact future understanding of fair use and other research exceptions.