Linguistics and literary studies both face the challenge that their research data is affected by third-party rights. Obtaining transferable, uniform licenses for German fiction books is particularly costly as no licensing models for non-expressive use (previously also called “non-consumptive use”, see Kamocki 2018) of entire texts as primary research data are generally established. Moreover, individual author permissions are often required, since the use of texts as research data is not covered by standard licensing agreements between authors and publishers.