On Sun, 8 May 2005, Graham wrote: > > On 8 May 2005, at 1:43 am, Robin Cover wrote: > > > I distinguished between minimal and optimal: minimally, I simply asked > > for 'atom:rights' in place of 'atom:copyright'. How is that harmful > > (other than to existing implementations that people don't want to > > change)? > > Because "copyright" is the better understood and more widely used > term. "rights" is meaningless.
The designers of Dublin Core and OAI-PMH didn't think so: that's why they adopted markup elements spelled "rights" http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/ "Element Name: Rights Definition: Information about rights held in and over the resource. Typically, Rights will contain a rights management statement for the resource, or reference a service providing such information. Rights information often encompasses Intellectual Property Rights (IPR), Copyright, and various Property Rights. If the Rights element is absent, no assumptions may be made about any rights held in or over the resource." OAI-PMH http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/guidelines-rights.htm#record_level See the XML schema there. > > > However, I ask you, does this make sense: > > > > <copyright>The corporate entity that owns this Atom document as > > its intellectual property does not wish to be identified by name, > > but I, although not the owner, certify that I am empowered to > > declare that you may legally display the text in your browser, > > and print it on paper, and display it on any website under your > > control, provided that you are an employee of a company having > > fewer than 20 employees as of 2005-05-03.</copyright> > > Yes. The "corporate entity that owns this document" would be the > copyright holder, non? I assume so, but that wasn't the point. The point was the same as that made by Dublin Core in its definition of the rights element (above): "Rights information often encompasses Intellectual Property Rights (IPR), Copyright, and various Property Rights..." A "rights" description might talk about trademarks, registered trademarks, service marks, and so forth: different from copyright. Cheers, -rcc > > Is that a Che Guevara t-shirt you're wearing? > > Graham > > --
