[open-bibliography] OAIPMH and the right to copy (from "Library support and REST")

[Ross Singer]

On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 8:17 AM, Ben O'Steen <bosteen at gmail.com> wrote:
> However, a service like this doesn't mean that you can reuse it for
> anything other than personal use. I am part of a ongoing conversation
> with UKPMC where they stated that they could not openly allow large
> scale reuse of their OAIPMH provided metadata. They said they could for
> their 'OA subset', but not for any of the others as they have
> contractual obligations to their metadata suppliers.
>
Which comes down to the academics signing less restrictive licenses on
their content.  Of course, the metadata should still be open (shy of
abstract, perhaps) for harvesting: no publisher has the rights to the
citation data.

I understand your licensing poison pill problem.  It's a mess.  What I
don't feel is legitimate is holding the library as scapegoat and
responsible for "fixing" the problem.  There are lots of actors in
this ensemble piece and it will take all of them working in concert to
fix it, because without buy-in from all the parties involved, we have
to work in vacuums.

-Ross.