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Client and Contractor

If you are producing the corpus for a client, you will most likely have a contract signed with your client before you start the project. Such a contract should as a minimum define This sounds rather easy but be aware: things get complicated very quickly if there are more than one client or more than one producer, if there are legal departments involved or if there are government agencies among the funding institutions. Be prepared to start your project before all the legal problems are solved, because if you have to wait, then your corpus will be probably outdated before you start producing it.

There are other, more practical items to be defined in your contract that should be mentioned here:


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