A small clarification has been made to the PLAN condition of all CLARIN licenses in the RES category. The added text is highlighted below:
The aforementioned update is included in the Terms of Use of the Language Bank of Finland, effective June 12, 2026, and the updated condition will automatically apply to all RES-type licenses granted through Kielipankki on or after that date.
All users who have a valid license for at least one resource in the Language Bank Rights system will be notified of this change separately via email. The new terms and conditions will take effect for previously granted licenses 60 days after the change notification is sent.
Even until now, access to restricted resources available through the Language Bank has only been granted on the basis of an appropriate plan included in the application. Thus, no changes will be needed in the licensing process in practice.
If you have access to a restricted resource via the Language Bank, please check whether the use of the material is still required for your research purpose. In case you no longer need the data for the purpose specified in your original application, you must give up your access rights either by closing the application in the Language Bank Rights service or by notifying the Language Bank (see contact information). You can reapply for access later, e.g., if you start working on a new research project in a few years.
As a new practice, the abbreviations for the standard terms and conditions of licenses falling under the CLARIN PUB, CLARIN ACA, or CLARIN RES categories are now listed after the license title. The title can thus provide a preliminary overview of the types of terms included in the license.
Please note, however, that the titles of the CLARIN licenses are still provided for reference purposes only. Moreover, there may still be some variation in the titles of the licenses during the transition period. The detailed and binding terms and conditions are specified in the license text.
You can find information about the various CLARIN licenses and combinations of the additional terms on the support page. The license information for individual resources distributed through the Language Bank of Finland can be found on the list of corpora (”License” column) on the website of the Language Bank.
