MOSLA Dataset Licence Agreement
By downloading this dataset and licence, this licence agreement is entered into, effective this date, between you, the Licensee, and Octanove Labs LLC., the Licensor. Furthermore, you certify that any and all information provided by you in the process of requesting access to this dataset is true and accurate.
Copyright of the entire licensed dataset is held by the Licensor. No ownership or interest in the dataset is transferred to the Licensee.
The Licensor hereby grants the Licensee a non-exclusive non-transferable right to use the licensed dataset exclusively for non-commercial research and non-commercial educational purposes, subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement.
Non-commercial purposes exclude without limitation any use of the licensed dataset or information derived from the dataset for or as part of a product or service which is sold, offered for sale, licensed, leased or rented.
The Licensee is expressly prohibited from using the data to identify participants present in the video, audio and text data, or to deliberately extract personally identifiable information ("PII") of any kind. This includes, but is not limited to, any information that could be used to identify an individual or could be potentially harmful to that individual if released, such as name, address, email address, or phone number.
The Licensee acknowledges that all teaching materials, content, slides, and other instructional resources presented within the dataset, regardless of format, are the exclusive intellectual property of their original creators. The Licensee is granted no rights to reproduce, distribute, modify, or use these materials for any purposes beyond non-commercial research. Unauthorized use, including but not limited to commercial exploitation, dissemination outside the scope of academic research, or modification of said materials, is expressly prohibited.
The Licensee shall acknowledge use of the licensed dataset in all publications of research based on it, in whole or in part, through citation of the following publication:
Hagiwara, Masato and Tanner, Joshua, Project MOSLA: Recording Every Moment of Second Language Acquisition, Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024)
The Licensee may publish excerpts of less than 100 words or less than 30 seconds of video/audio from the licensed dataset pursuant to clauses 3 through 6. Outside of the exception provided in this clause, the Licensee shall not publish, distribute, or otherwise disseminate the licensed dataset or any part thereof to any third party, including but not limited to any other academic institution, corporation, or individual, without the express written consent of the Licensor.
The Licensor grants the Licensee this right to use the licensed dataset "as is". Licensor does not make, and expressly disclaims, any express or implied warranties, representations or endorsements of any kind whatsoever.
Unless otherwise separately undertaken by the Licensor, to the extent possible, the Licensor offers the licensed dataset as-is and as-available, and makes no representations or warranties of any kind concerning the licensed dataset, whether express, implied, statutory, or other. This includes, without limitation, warranties of title, merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement, absence of latent or other defects, accuracy, or the presence or absence of errors, whether or not known or discoverable. To the extent possible, in no event will the Licensor be liable to you on any legal theory (including, without limitation, negligence) or otherwise for any direct, special, indirect, incidental, consequential, punitive, exemplary, or other losses, costs, expenses, or damages arising out of this Public License or use of the licensed dataset, even if the Licensor has been advised of the possibility of such losses, costs, expenses, or damages. The disclaimer of warranties and limitation of liability provided above shall be interpreted in a manner that, to the extent possible, most closely approximates an absolute disclaimer and waiver of all liability.
This Agreement shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the United States of America ("USA") and USA courts shall have exclusive jurisdiction.