Re: Copyrightability of XML Schemas (and their Valid Instances)?

On Friday 16 May 2003 18:29, Joseph Reagle wrote:
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> 3. And the policy parts are speculative with
> respect to competition, anti-trust, and economic incentives for
> production. Interesting, but unsatisfying absent actual cases studies or
> contemporary issues. For example, are organizations now asserting
> copyright with respect to their schemas? Yes. Do they explicitly extend
> this to all valid instances? Interesting question. The W3C does, but I
> wonder about proprietary formats.

Ooops, to be correct, W3C does claim copyright of DTD and Schema, but does 
NOT extend those claims to include valid instances as derivations.

Received on Sunday, 18 May 2003 11:59:00 UTC