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

Tue Oct 26 13:36:16 UTC 2010

Quoting Christopher Gutteridge <cjg at ecs.soton.ac.uk>:

> Is there any chance of having bibligraphic metadata being explicitly
> legally declared as always fair use? If you do that the problem goes
> away...

In the US that can only be the result of a court case -- a long,  
expensive court case. That's because of the particular mechanism of  
the US "fair use" provision. For countries with "fair dealing" and  
other more explicit declarations, I presume it is a legislative  
matter. It would be great if something could happen at an EU level,  
but I can't imagine the effort that would take.

kc

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> On 26/10/10 13:17, Ben O'Steen wrote:
>> On Tue, 2010-10-26 at 07:29 -0400, Ross Singer wrote:
>>
>>> Sidestepping all of the sanctimonious patronizing towards libraries
>>> (chemistry is not much of a high horse to look down from), to answer
>>> Peter's original question about getting the data: DSpace has ways to
>>> get data out.  Every DSpace instance has an OAI-PMH provider:
>>>
>>> https://spectradspace.lib.imperial.ac.uk:8443/dspace-oai/request?verb=Identify
>>>
>>> it's just that Imperial's seems to be broken.
>>>
>>> DSpace also has an SRU plugin:
>>>
>>> http://code.google.com/p/oclcsrwdspacelucene/
>>>
>>> But that doesn't mean Imperial has installed it.
>>>
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> Ben
>>
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