[open-bibliography] DOIs and openbiblio

Wed Feb 2 16:08:03 UTC 2011

On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 2:36 PM, David Jones <drj at pobox.com> wrote:

> 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?
>

There is nothing from anyone claiming that the air is copyright and that
breathing it infringes.  As far as I am concerned let's take what we have
and not suggest ways in which it can be challenged.

-- 
Peter Murray-Rust
Reader in Molecular Informatics
Unilever Centre, Dep. Of Chemistry
University of Cambridge
CB2 1EW, UK
+44-1223-763069
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