LDS Contractual Framework: Principles, Status and Implementation

Penny Labropoulou, Kossay Talmoudi, Dimitrios Gkoumas, Katerina Gkirtzou, Miltos Deligiannis, Leon Voukoutis, Athanasia Kolovou, Khalid Choukri, Stelios Piperidis, Dimitrios Galanis


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.
Anthology ID:
2026.legal-1.3
Volume:
Proceedings of the Joint Workshop on Legal and Ethical Issues in Human Language Technologies and Computational Approaches to Language Data Pseudonymization, Anonymization, De-identification, and Data Privacy (LEGAL2026 and CALD-pseudo 2026) @ LREC 2026
Month:
May
Year:
2026
Address:
Palma, Mallorca (Spain)
Editors:
Ingo Siegert, Maria Irena Szawerna, Khalid Choukri, Simon Dobnik, Paweł Kamocki, Therese Lindström Tiedemann, Pierre Lison, Ricardo Muñoz Sánchez, Ildikó Pilán, Lisa Södergård, Kossay Talmoudi, Elena Volodina, Xuan-Son Vu
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LEGAL | CALD-pseudo | WS
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ELRA
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Pages:
26–34
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External URL:
https://lrec.elra.info/lrec2026-ws-legal-03
DOI:
10.63317/5n8qnt6w97a6
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Penny Labropoulou, Kossay Talmoudi, Dimitrios Gkoumas, Katerina Gkirtzou, Miltos Deligiannis, Leon Voukoutis, Athanasia Kolovou, Khalid Choukri, Stelios Piperidis, and Dimitrios Galanis. 2026. LDS Contractual Framework: Principles, Status and Implementation. In Proceedings of the Joint Workshop on Legal and Ethical Issues in Human Language Technologies and Computational Approaches to Language Data Pseudonymization, Anonymization, De-identification, and Data Privacy (LEGAL2026 and CALD-pseudo 2026) @ LREC 2026, pages 26–34, Palma, Mallorca (Spain). ELRA.
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LDS Contractual Framework: Principles, Status and Implementation (Labropoulou et al., LEGAL-CALD-pseudo 2026)
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