[open-bibliography] DOIs and openbiblio

Wed Feb 2 16:59:59 UTC 2011

I think the IDF position I have given is the default position for RAs as well as the IDF itself and, so far, no-one has departed from that default. The IDF is, essentially, the RAs working towards common cause, so I think it is relevant.

However, I'm very inclined to agree with Peter's approach here....

Paul

On 2 Feb 2011, at 16:08, Peter Murray-Rust wrote:

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> 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.
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