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A. Except as to the extent prohibited by any user agreement, the user shall have the right to

1. incorporate portions of the LDC (Linguistic Data Consortium) data into its own work products for internal, non-commercial use and not for redistribution,
2. incorporate small excerpts of text or audio data from the LDC data for display or publication in a scientific or technical context, but only for the purpose of descriving the research and related issues, and
3. publish statistics and other summaries of the LDC data.

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D. Copyright

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User License Agreement for DIRHA English WSJ Audio LDC2018S01

{"User"}, engaging in language education, research and technology development agrees to use the data designated as DIRHA English WSJ Audio LDC2018S01 (the "Data") and distributed by LDC subject to the following understandings, terms and conditions.

1. Permitted and Prohibited Uses

   1.1 The Data may only be used for linguistic education, research and non-commercial technology development, including, but not limited to information retrieval, document understanding, machine translation or speech recognition.

   1.2 User shall not publish, retransmit, reproduce or commercially exploit the data in any form, except that User may include limited excerpts from the Data in articles, reports and other documents describing the results of the User's linguistic education, research and non-commercial technology development.

2. Copyright notice and disclaimer

   2.1 The Data is the property of Fondazio Bruno Kessler and Dow Jones & Company Inc., and is protected by applicable copyright law. In no event shall the User publish, retransmit, redisplay, redistribute, or otherwise reproduce any or all of the Data in any format to anyone, except as allowed in Section 1 of this agreement.

   2.2 USER ACKNOWLEDGES AND AGREES THAT DIRHA English WSJ Audio LDC2018S01 IS PROVIDED ON AN "AS-IS" BASIS AND THAT LDC AND ITS HOST INSTITUTION THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA MAKE NO REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, OR CONFORMABILITY WITH WHATEVER DOCUMENTATION IS PROVIDED. IN NO EVENT SHALL LDC OR ITS HOST INSTITUTION BE LIABLE FOR CHARGES, CLAIMS, DEMANDS, FEES OR EXPENSES OF ANY NATURE OR KIND ARISING IN ANY WAY FROM THE FURNISHING OF, OR USER'S USE OF, DIRHA English WSJ Audio LDC2018S01.

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