In this document, the ELRC legal helpdesk analyzes under which legal conditions audio, video and dialogue subtitles coming from emergency calls embedded in a German TV show can be re-used for developing AI models.

Several legal aspects specific to the German legislation including intellectual property and copyright protection are reviewed. The use and sharing of different types of data (audio, video and transcriptions of the dialogues), and their derivatives, for research and commercial purposes, are also tackled.