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wlandau opened this issue Aug 27, 2020 · 0 comments
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Copyright / fair use of the Telco churn dataset #12

wlandau opened this issue Aug 27, 2020 · 0 comments

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wlandau commented Aug 27, 2020

I am having trouble finding official confirmation that folks like us in industry are allowed to use the Telco churn dataset for educational purposes. From the Telco dataset webpage, it looks like the dataset now belongs to IBM Cognos Analytics. The IBM terms of use state:

IBM grants you a non-exclusive, non-transferable, limited permission to access and display the Web pages within this site as a customer or potential customer of IBM provided you comply with these Terms of Use, and all copyright, trademark, and other proprietary notices remain intact. You may only use a crawler to crawl this Web site as permitted by this Web site’s robots.txt protocol, and IBM may block any crawlers in its sole discretion. The use authorized under this agreement is non-commercial in nature (e.g., you may not sell the content you access on or through this Web site.) All other use of this site is prohibited.

Except for the limited permission in the preceding paragraph, IBM does not grant you any express or implied rights or licenses under any patents, trademarks, copyrights, or other proprietary or intellectual property rights. You may not mirror any of the content from this site on another Web site or in any other media. Any software and other materials that are made available for downloading, access, or other use from this site with their own license terms will be governed by such terms, conditions, and notices. Your failure to comply with such terms or any of the terms on this site will result in automatic termination of any rights granted to you, without prior notice, and you must immediately destroy all copies of downloaded materials in your possession, custody or control.

But I am not sure what that means for us or how this specific dataset is licensed.

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