Sharing is caring: a legal perspective on sharing language data containing personal data and the division of liability between researchers and research organisations

The article focuses on determining responsible parties and the division of potential liability aris-ing from sharing language data (LD) containing personal data (PD). A key issue here is to identify who has to make sure and guarantee the GDPR compliance. The authors aim to answer 1) whether an individual researcher is a controller and 2) whether sharing LD results in joint controllership or separate controllership (whether the data's transferee becomes the controller, the joint control-ler or the processor). The article also analyses the legal relations of parties involved in data sharing and potential liability. The finalsection outlines data sharing in the CLARIN context. The analy-sis serves as a preliminary analytical background for redesigning the CLARIN contractual frame-work for sharing data