NOTICE.md

NOTICE: official Polish sources

This file covers five sources built from Polish official publications: parliamentary, sejm_api_2011_2022, sejm_api, sejm_committee_transcripts and dziennik_ustaw. Counts, statistics and processing details are in each source's datasheet (data/<source>/<source>.md), not here. Other sources have their own notices in data/<source>/. The dataset-level licence, disclaimer and takedown statements are in the README; this file does not change them.

Legal status (our assessment)

We consider these texts excluded from copyright under Art. 4 of the Polish Copyright Act (Act of 4 February 1994, consolidated text Dz. U. 2025 poz. 24): pkt 2 for official documents, materials, signs and symbols, and, for the normative acts in dziennik_ustaw, also pkt 1. That is a statement of Polish law only. Their status may differ in other jurisdictions.

The label public-domain (official documents) is a descriptive term for this status. It is not a licence. No Creative Commons public-domain mark (CC0, Public Domain Mark) is applied to these texts or implied by the label, and no institution below attached a Creative Commons licence to the texts themselves. IPI PAN's consent to the inclusion of the parliamentary resource in a collection tagged CC BY-SA 4.0 is described under parliamentary; it is a consent about IPI PAN's own rights. The permission on the Sejm's terms page is described separately below.

The statement does not extend to:

• third-party fragments inside the documents, for example quotations, letters from private persons, standards, maps and illustrations;
• personal data, which is a separate matter (see each datasheet's privacy section and the personal-data passes it describes).

This is our assessment, not legal advice.

Reuse framework

The Polish Open Data and Reuse of PSI Act (Dz. U. 2023 poz. 1524) is cited as the framework for reusing the institutions' own public-sector information (arts. 2(12), 5, 6, 14, 15, 17). It is not cited as a basis for reusing third-party works that appear in that information; the Act itself leaves material in which other parties hold copyright outside its scope (art. 6). Art. 15 ust. 1 lists the conditions an institution may attach to reuse; in our reading a bar on commercial use is not among them.

Sejm sources and the System Informacyjny Sejmu

Applies to sejm_api, sejm_api_2011_2022 and sejm_committee_transcripts. As a precaution we also give the credit for the Sejm material in parliamentary and for dziennik_ustaw, where it is not clear that the note applies; see those entries below.

Source note. The terms page of the Sejm's information system (System Informacyjny Sejmu, SIS) asks that material taken from www.sejm.gov.pl carry a note naming its source, and gives the source as "System Informacyjny Sejmu". The Regulamin Sejmu places committee transcripts and interpellations, replies and written questions in SIS. We do not know whether output served by api.sejm.gov.pl is part of SIS: the API states no terms of its own, and the SIS terms page ends with a link to it ("API dla systemów sejmowych") without saying that its terms cover the API. As a precaution we give the requested credit:

Źródło: System Informacyjny Sejmu (Kancelaria Sejmu RP)

Terms page, read 2026-10-19. The page allows free use of SIS material with limits. One of them is the source note above. Another is a clause that SIS material, in particular live streams and archive material produced by iTV Sejm, "nie mogą być elementem komercyjnej oferty żadnej agencji, stacji telewizyjnej, portalu ani innego podmiotu". We report the clause for information. We do not offer it as a licence term of this dataset. We have not verified whether it reaches the text sources here or binds a re-user; users who plan a commercial use should read the page and decide for themselves. The page also says that clubs, circles, teams and MPs answer for their own pages; we did not take material from those pages.

Archive: a verbatim copy of the terms block, with its date and SHA-256 (cb4d21a44f5b09d50cdf95518aad77632b2750b5df6535c1d8aa894152b80469), is kept as evidence/sis_copyright_2026-10-19.md (and its .content.html and .meta.json) in polish-dynaword-v2. The page's URL is https://www.sejm.gov.pl/Sejm10.nsf/page.xsp/copyright. An earlier capture of the same page by the Internet Archive, 2026-06-03, carries the same source note and clause: http://web.archive.org/web/20260603115729/https://sejm.gov.pl/Sejm10.nsf/page.xsp/copyright

Sources

Dates are those we can document. "Acquired" means the date the text was fetched from the upstream service, when known; a date in the registry (added) is when the shard was added here and is not an acquisition date.

parliamentary

• Upstream chain: the Chancelleries of the Sejm and the Senate (stenographic reports and committee transcripts), then the Polish Parliamentary Corpus (PPC) of IPI PAN, then this shard.
• Route: the per-term TEI dump of 2025-05-21, downloaded directly from IPI PAN's server (https://kdp.ipipan.waw.pl/static/ppcdump-tei/<term>-tei.zip; 28 zips, 26,409,547,075 bytes) and pinned by size and SHA-256 in src/fetch_parliamentary.py. Nothing was fetched from the Chancelleries' own sites. The shard shipped up to v0.2.5 came from SpeakLeash's PPC_corpus instead; the datasheet describes the difference.
• Acquired: 2026-10-07 (the TEI dump).
• Terms: the only rights statement we found is IPI PAN's on its PPC page: "The parliamentary data is public domain." It is a redistributor's statement, not the institutions'. We read the page on 2026-10-18 and archived it in polish-dynaword-v2 (pull request 120). We record the sentence as provenance, not as our legal basis.
• IPI PAN's confirmation, 2026-10-19: by email, IPI PAN confirmed that its statement also covers its right as producer of the database, and agreed to the resource's inclusion in this collection under the collection's CC BY-SA 4.0 tag. That is IPI PAN's consent about its own rights and about the collection-level tag; it does not give the texts a licence and does not speak for the Sejm or the Senate. The reply is archived as evidence/ipipan_reply_2026-10-19.md in polish-dynaword-v2. IPI PAN also confirmed the citation (Ogrodniczuk 2018) as correct for now and said a book on the corpus is in preparation, so the preferred citation may change.
• Credit: IPI PAN; the speaker turns, speaker ids, roles and dates this source is cut and filtered by come from IPI PAN's TEI markup. PPC's CC BY licence covers its annotations; none of the annotation layers is shipped. Cite Maciej Ogrodniczuk (2018), "Polish Parliamentary Corpus", Proceedings of the LREC 2018 Workshop ParlaCLARIN.
• SIS credit: Źródło: System Informacyjny Sejmu (Kancelaria Sejmu RP), for the Sejm material in this source. We give it as a precaution: the source is a copy from IPI PAN's server, not from the Sejm's system, and whether the note applies is open. It does not cover the Senate material.

sejm_api_2011_2022 and sejm_api

• Upstream: API Sejmu, https://api.sejm.gov.pl/ (Kancelaria Sejmu RP): speeches in plenary sittings, 2011-2022 (sejm_api_2011_2022) and from 2023 (sejm_api).
• Terms: api.sejm.gov.pl states no licence or terms of use; no disclaimer was found. See the SIS section above.
• Route: the API, then Piotr Styła's corpus on the Hub, PiotrSty/sejm-speeches-corpus@v1.0.1 (commit 124557799608ce4212cf22fa90ca7904618de1b6), then these shards. We did not re-fetch the text from the API. The snapshot is a contributor's copy: its compiler may hold a database right of his own in it, and this file does not rely on one being waived or licensed.
• Acquired: not recorded in the snapshot's metadata that we hold. sejm_api was added on 2026-08-22 and sejm_api_2011_2022 on 2026-08-31.
• Credit: Kancelaria Sejmu RP, SIS (above); compiled by Piotr Styła. The speaker and the day-level API URL of each record are in <source>.attribution.jsonl.
• Not implied: endorsement by the Kancelaria Sejmu RP.

sejm_committee_transcripts

• Upstream: API Sejmu, https://api.sejm.gov.pl/ (Kancelaria Sejmu RP): full transcripts ("pełny zapis przebiegu posiedzenia") of committee sittings, terms 9-10, as PDFs (/sejm/term{n}/committees/{code}/sittings/{num}/pdf).
• Terms: none at the API; no disclaimer found. See the SIS section above.
• Route: the API, with src/fetch_sejm_committee_transcripts.py, assembled from the contributor's pipeline PiotrSty/sejm-committee-transcripts at commit 9efc4e2; text with pdftotext -layout. The script downloads the PDFs from the API; this repository names no intermediary copy of the data and does not record who ran the download. The shard was re-cut and re-filtered from the stored pre-filter release (Hub PR 37), because the PDF cache is not kept.
• Acquired: no exact download date is recorded. The latest sitting is dated 2026-09-03 and the pre-filter release reached the Hub on 2026-09-29, so the download falls between those dates. The registry's added date, 2026-09-18, is not an acquisition date.
• Credit: Kancelaria Sejmu RP, SIS (above). Each record's source PDF endpoint and the sitting's content_sha1 are in sejm_committee_transcripts.attribution.jsonl.
• Not implied: endorsement by the Kancelaria Sejmu RP.

dziennik_ustaw

• Upstream: ELI interface of the Kancelaria Sejmu, https://api.sejm.gov.pl/eli/acts, which serves the texts of acts published in Dziennik Ustaw (Journal of Laws).
• Terms: the ELI documentation (/eli.html) states no licence or terms of use; no disclaimer was found. The texts are normative acts and other official documents (Art. 4 pkt 1 and 2, above).
• Contents: Dziennik Ustaw only. Monitor Polski is not included. The datasheet gives the measured scope: statutes, regulations, announcements (mostly consolidated texts), rulings of the Constitutional Tribunal, government statements on international agreements, treaties and their foreign-language texts, and three EU Council decisions. Foreign-language texts, such as treaty appendices, are part of the official publication; their status under foreign law is outside the statement above.
• Route: the ELI API directly, with src/fetch_eli.py (HTML text of each act). No intermediary.
• Acquired: not recorded. The shard was added on 2026-06-15.
• Credit: Dziennik Ustaw; Kancelaria Sejmu RP for the ELI interface. As a precaution we also give the System Informacyjny Sejmu note, "Źródło: System Informacyjny Sejmu (Kancelaria Sejmu RP)". The terms page does not mention the ELI interface, so whether the note applies is open.

Takedown and contact

Material is removed on a substantiated request, as described in the README and in takedown/PROCEDURE.md.