LDS Contractual Framework: Principles, Status and Implementation

Abstract

To strengthen competitiveness and digital sovereignty, the European Union has promoted the development of Common European Data Spaces to enable secure and interoperable data sharing between participants for various sectors. Data spaces combine technical infrastructure with governance mechanisms to ensure trust, transparency, data sovereignty and interoperability. Their operation must comply with the evolving European regulatory framework as well as contractual law. This paper presents the strategy adopted in the Language Data Space (LDS) to operationalise these requirements, focusing on its contractual framework and supporting instruments. It outlines the governing principles designed to ensure lawful, transparent, and fair data transactions while safeguarding the rights and obligations of data providers and consumers alike. It further describes the actual framework, and the recommended data sharing licences, with a particular emphasis on the LDS standard licence. Finally, it presents the automation tools designed and developed to support the relevant workflows while serving a wide range of users that have little or no knowledge of technical and legal complexities.

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