# Licence and rights

Part of [MBDef](https://huggingface.co/datasets/mediabiasgroup/MBDef).

- **Our annotations are licensed CC BY 4.0.** That covers the selection, term merging, relevance scores and decisions.
- **The definition texts are quotations.** Their copyright stays with the papers' authors and publishers.
- **What OpenAlex records for each paper** (`papers.open_licence`):
  - 2,803 papers (47,338 definitions) have a CC BY, CC BY-SA or CC0 / public-domain version;
  - 771 papers (15,823 definitions) have a non-commercial CC version;
  - 2,292 papers have no recorded licence.
- If you are a rights holder and want a quotation removed, open a discussion on this repository.