RE: URIs and intellectual property

Hi Carl,

> I acknowledge that publishers may have these fears and would 
> like them to
> understand that the indirect approach provides an opportunity to
> strengthen their position as an authority and promote their IP rights.

Actually I strongly disagree with this. 

The method of identification (direct or indirect) is completely orthogonal
to the issue of copyright or intellectual property.

Compare referring to a book (directly) via its ISBN number, and referring to
it (indirectly) via the combination of it's title and author.

Al.


> 
> 
> carl
> 
> <quote who="Miles, AJ (Alistair)">
> >
> > Hi Carl,
> >
> >>  However, if a publisher did not employ this exemplary approach (to
> >> protect their investment?) then (of course) an indirect URI
> >> must be used.
> >
> > If I understand you correctly, I just wanted to comment on 
> this, because
> > it
> > seems there is a misconception that by publishing URIs for 
> concepts a
> > thesaurus owner is somehow giving up their intellectual property.
> >
> > The reason why I think this is a misconception is explained 
> nicely in:
> >
> > http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/webarch/#id-access
> >
> > I.e. it's like saying that giving a book an ISBN number violates the
> > copyright.
> >
> > Al.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >> Thus for pragmatic purposes I  encourage the use of indirect
> >> identifiers
> >> as an architectural approach.
> >>
> >> <quote who="Patrick.Stickler@nokia.com">
> >>
> >> >> I suggest you follow Dublin Core's exemplary lead and use
> >> >> URIs without fragment identifiers to identify your terms.
> >> >> You'll be in very good company, and such an approach is
> >> >> fully compatible with the PR version of AWWW and every
> >> >> semantic web spec produced by the W3C to date.
> >> >
> >> > To be more specific, and more accurate regarding my
> >> > original meaning, I suggest that you use 'http:' URIs
> >> > without fragment identifiers to identify your terms.
> 
> 
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