[open-bibliography] DOIs and openbiblio

[David Jones]

On 2 February 2011 11:50, Paul Walk <p.walk at ukoln.ac.uk> wrote:
> Peter,
> regarding your specific question on whether or not DOIs as identifiers are considered copyright. Like you, I expected that IDF would not make claims of copyright to DOI identifiers. I'm happy to say that I have just confirmed with Norman Paskin, Director of the International DOI Foundation, that IDF does not regard DOI names (identifiers) as copyright and, indeed, encourages their open and widespread use.

This seems like a good thing to me, but I don't think the IDF has much
to do with it.  Individual DOIs are minted by registrants, and it
seems to be quite plausible that some registrant may well mint DOIs
that it regards as copyright (just to be clear, I mean the DOI
itself).  There's nothing stopping a registrant from doing that, is
there?

[I've also brought this up on PMR's blog]

David Jones