Hi everyone,<br><br>One of my students plans to use a corpus (audio and transcripts) of doctor-patient conversations that were recorded by a private company. We have signed the company&#39;s in-house legal agreement so that we could obtain initial access to this corpus. The data look great, so the student would like to use them as the basis for long-term work. However, there&#39;s always the possibility that the company might choose to withdraw access down the road, and this is a concern.<br>
<br>Does anyone have experience of managing these kinds of relationships? What additional legal documentation did you draw up, if any? How was your local IRB involved?<br><br>Thanks,<br>Suzanne<br><br><br><br clear="all">
Dr. Suzanne Evans Wagner<br>Assistant Professor of Linguistics<br>Department of Linguistics and Languages<br>Michigan State University<br>East Lansing, MI 48824<br><br><br>Tel: +1 (517) 355-9739<br><a href="http://www.msu.edu/%7Ewagnersu" target="_blank">http://www.msu.edu/~wagnersu</a><br>
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