Re: URI Owners

On 15 Jun 2011, at 12:35, Christopher Gutteridge wrote:
> ah, it's owned because the community agrees that is the way we work, it's not a legal ownership. That was my confusion.

That's one side. There is a legal argument too. Gross oversimplification: You can own URIs because you can own domain names. You can own domain names because you can own trademarks. IANAL.

Best,
Richard


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> On 15/06/11 12:14, Michael Hausenblas wrote:
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>>> Do URIs have owners? I don't thing "owner" is the correct term. A URI has an agent (person, group) who controls what it resolves to, but I'm not sure you can own an identifier.
>> 
>> http://www.w3.org/TR/webarch/#uri-assignment
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>> On 15 Jun 2011, at 11:58, Christopher Gutteridge wrote:
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>>> Picking up on comment by Richard, but forking the thread
>>> 
>>> "Would you agree that Facebook are the owners of this URI?"
>>> 
>>> Do URIs have owners? I don't thing "owner" is the correct term. A URI has an agent (person, group) who controls what it resolves to, but I'm not sure you can own an identifier.
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