It should be understood in contrast to most traditional corpora, which are heavily paywalled/restricted ... or else based solely on century-old books. It has lo

It should be understood in contrast to most traditional corpora, which are heavily paywalled/restricted ... or else based solely on century-old books. It has long been a major obstacle for linguistics tooling. If the current push of AI companies to get their way (to allow copyright laundering) succeeds, this would almost count as open source by the real definition. If not ... lots of people/companies are committing copyright crimes, some are committing civil infractions, and some may be able to claim fair use.