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Which screenplay/film-dialogue corpora (Cornell Movie-Dialogs, ScriptBase, TRIPOD, MovieNet scripts) exist, what terms are stated for code, annotations and script text, and what scene or structure measurements are published from them?

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None of the common screenplay corpora states reuse rights for the script texts. The Cornell Movie-Dialogs page (220,579 exchanges from 617 films) has no licence text; ConvoKit's MIT licence covers its software, not the corpus. ScriptBase (1,276 scripts crawled from sites like IMSDb) and TRIPOD have no licence file (GitHub's licence API returns 'not found') and no licence statement in their READMEs. MovieNet distributes through an OpenDataLab user agreement and withholds films for copyright reasons. All rest on scripts crawled from public websites. Curator qualifications: Pages read 2026-10-22; no corpus downloaded. Script texts: rights not stated (hold); do not redistribute corpus text or train on it on the strength of these pages. MovieNet arXiv scene-boundary and IMSDb counts carried from producer reading. Limitations: Pages read 2026-10-22; no corpus downloaded. Evidence status: statements located in the cited sources by a correlated desk review (Claude); not executed; not independently reviewed.

Structured fields

{
  "citations": [
    {
      "url": "https://movienet.github.io/",
      "note": "Cornell Movie-Dialogs Corpus page; ConvoKit LICENSE.md @91a1df0; ScriptBase paper (NAACL 2015, N15-1113) section 3; ScriptBase README @051ebe2; TRIPOD README @f1ee6eb; GitHub license API for EdinburghNLP/scriptbase and ppapalampidi/TRIPOD; MovieNet project page"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://github.com/movienet/movienet-tools/blob/d3f66b2534320b583b607e639995fb1f156ecf21/README.md",
      "note": "Cornell Movie-Dialogs Corpus page; ConvoKit LICENSE.md @91a1df0; ScriptBase paper (NAACL 2015, N15-1113) section 3; ScriptBase README @051ebe2; TRIPOD README @f1ee6eb; GitHub license API for EdinburghNLP/scriptbase and ppapalampidi/TRIPOD; MovieNet project page"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://arxiv.org/pdf/2007.10937",
      "note": "Cornell Movie-Dialogs Corpus page; ConvoKit LICENSE.md @91a1df0; ScriptBase paper (NAACL 2015, N15-1113) section 3; ScriptBase README @051ebe2; TRIPOD README @f1ee6eb; GitHub license API for EdinburghNLP/scriptbase and ppapalampidi/TRIPOD; MovieNet project page"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://aclanthology.org/N15-1113.pdf",
      "note": "Cornell Movie-Dialogs Corpus page; ConvoKit LICENSE.md @91a1df0; ScriptBase paper (NAACL 2015, N15-1113) section 3; ScriptBase README @051ebe2; TRIPOD README @f1ee6eb; GitHub license API for EdinburghNLP/scriptbase and ppapalampidi/TRIPOD; MovieNet project page"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://github.com/EdinburghNLP/scriptbase/blob/051ebe2ed5edf33fdfba936177c2b95c9ea3b57d/README.md",
      "note": "Cornell Movie-Dialogs Corpus page; ConvoKit LICENSE.md @91a1df0; ScriptBase paper (NAACL 2015, N15-1113) section 3; ScriptBase README @051ebe2; TRIPOD README @f1ee6eb; GitHub license API for EdinburghNLP/scriptbase and ppapalampidi/TRIPOD; MovieNet project page"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://github.com/ppapalampidi/TRIPOD/blob/f1ee6eb9794c475119f2c0d405965c89a3c511e6/README.md",
      "note": "Cornell Movie-Dialogs Corpus page; ConvoKit LICENSE.md @91a1df0; ScriptBase paper (NAACL 2015, N15-1113) section 3; ScriptBase README @051ebe2; TRIPOD README @f1ee6eb; GitHub license API for EdinburghNLP/scriptbase and ppapalampidi/TRIPOD; MovieNet project page"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://www.cs.cornell.edu/~cristian/Cornell_Movie-Dialogs_Corpus.html",
      "note": "Cornell Movie-Dialogs Corpus page; ConvoKit LICENSE.md @91a1df0; ScriptBase paper (NAACL 2015, N15-1113) section 3; ScriptBase README @051ebe2; TRIPOD README @f1ee6eb; GitHub license API for EdinburghNLP/scriptbase and ppapalampidi/TRIPOD; MovieNet project page"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://convokit.cornell.edu/documentation/movie.html",
      "note": "Cornell Movie-Dialogs Corpus page; ConvoKit LICENSE.md @91a1df0; ScriptBase paper (NAACL 2015, N15-1113) section 3; ScriptBase README @051ebe2; TRIPOD README @f1ee6eb; GitHub license API for EdinburghNLP/scriptbase and ppapalampidi/TRIPOD; MovieNet project page"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://github.com/CornellNLP/ConvoKit/blob/91a1df0143668d8e0017f932f97ac878e53b91fa/LICENSE.md",
      "note": "Cornell Movie-Dialogs Corpus page; ConvoKit LICENSE.md @91a1df0; ScriptBase paper (NAACL 2015, N15-1113) section 3; ScriptBase README @051ebe2; TRIPOD README @f1ee6eb; GitHub license API for EdinburghNLP/scriptbase and ppapalampidi/TRIPOD; MovieNet project page"
    }
  ]
}

Evidence claims

[sourced_fact] None of the common screenplay corpora states reuse rights for the script texts. The Cornell Movie-Dialogs page (220,579 exchanges from 617 films) has no licence text; ConvoKit's MIT licence covers its software, not the corpus. ScriptBase (1,276 scripts crawled from sites like IMSDb) and TRIPOD have no licence file (GitHub's licence API returns 'not found') and no licence statement in their READMEs. MovieNet distributes through an OpenDataLab user agreement and withholds films for copyright reasons. All rest on scripts crawled from public websites. · locator: Cornell Movie-Dialogs Corpus page; ConvoKit LICENSE.md @91a1df0; ScriptBase paper (NAACL 2015, N15-1113) section 3; ScriptBase README @051ebe2; TRIPOD README @f1ee6eb; GitHub license API for EdinburghNLP/scriptbase and ppapalampidi/TRIPOD; MovieNet project page source

Rights

component	license	hosting	redistribution	modification	training	Evidence and notes
documentation	unknown	permitted	permitted	unknown	unknown	Applies to this original summary only, not to the cited sources.

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