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I now understand that most countries’ copyright laws do include a provision for third-party indexing, so you can say “I saw this word on page 234 of that book” and not be held liable for copyright infringement of favourite books that feature too often in your list: at worst, your list is an _index_ of your books, which is (in countries that have those provisions) allowed. But you still run the risk of accidentally _defaming_ a book by writing wrong notes—there are “free speech” laws protecting reviews (up to a point), but I quite like the books I read and didn’t want to cast them in a bad light by publishing all my misunderstandings.
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So I tried querying a large Chinese Internet search engine for each of my words, to get some measure of which words were common enough to warrant disregarding my reading notes and just saying "here's a translation that's 'out there' and worth recognising". I had to be careful to ensure the search results really showed the word in _common_ use (not just illegal copies of the source I read), and I also had to beware of having documented a rare different use-case of an otherwise common word.
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After subsetting and editing my database, I can now present 62% of the ‘specialist’ words I collected between 2009 and 2019 as confirmed “public domain” words you can _do what you want_ with (i.e. please _do_ add them to products to help learners—and email me if you’d like me to mention here that you’ve added it to your product). The other 38% (and my reading notes) have not been added to CedPane, but I hope it’s already useful.
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I now understand that most countries’ copyright laws do include a provision for third-party indexing, so you can say “I saw this word on page 234 of that book” and not be held liable for copyright infringement of favourite books that feature too often in your list: at worst, your list is an _index_ of your books, which is (in countries that have those provisions) allowed. But you still run the risk of accidentally _defaming_ a book by writing wrong notes—there are “free speech” laws protecting reviews (up to a point), but I quite like the books I read and didn’t want to cast them in a bad light by publishing all my misunderstandings.
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So I tried querying a large Chinese Internet search engine for each of my words, to get some measure of which words were common enough to warrant disregarding my reading notes and just saying "here's a translation that's 'out there' and worth recognising". I had to be careful to ensure the search results really showed the word in _common_ use (not just illegal copies of the source I read), and I also had to beware of having documented a rare different use-case of an otherwise common word.
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After subsetting and editing my database, I can now present 62% of the ‘specialist’ words I collected between 2009 and 2019 as confirmed “public domain” words you can _do what you want_ with (i.e. please _do_ add them to products to help learners—and email me if you’d like me to mention here that you’ve added it to your product). The other 38% (and my reading notes) have not been added to CedPane, but I hope it’s already useful.
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