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 > > On 15/06/11 12:14, Michael Hausenblas wrote: >> >>> 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 >> >> Cheers, >> Michael >> -- >> Dr. Michael Hausenblas, Research Fellow >> LiDRC - Linked Data Research Centre >> DERI - Digital Enterprise Research Institute >> NUIG - National University of Ireland, Galway >> Ireland, Europe >> Tel. +353 91 495730 >> http://linkeddata.deri.ie/ >> http://sw-app.org/about.html >> >> On 15 Jun 2011, at 11:58, Christopher Gutteridge wrote: >> >>> 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. >>> >>> -- >>> Christopher Gutteridge -- http://id.ecs.soton.ac.uk/person/1248 >>> >>> / Lead Developer, EPrints Project, http://eprints.org/ >>> / Web Projects Manager, ECS, University of Southampton, >>> http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/ >>> / Webmaster, Web Science Trust, http://www.webscience.org/ >>> >>> >> >> > > -- > Christopher Gutteridge -- http://id.ecs.soton.ac.uk/person/1248 > > / Lead Developer, EPrints Project, http://eprints.org/ > / Web Projects Manager, ECS, University of Southampton, > http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/ > / Webmaster, Web Science Trust, http://www.webscience.org/ > >
