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Intellectual
property issues
•Recognise that standards organisations may
involve IP issues
–e.g. Rambus case; Lemley
paper “Intellectual Property Rights and Standard Setting
Organisations” 2002
•Primary purpose of IDF is promoting the
widest possible distribution
and use of DOIs
–Ensuring that the DOI
remains an open standard and system available to all who
wish to adopt it
•IDF, as non-profit governance body of the DOI
system, safeguards (owns
or licences on behalf of registrants) all Intellectual Property Rights relating to the DOI System.
–Works with RAs and with
the underlying technical standards of the DOI
components to ensure that any improvements made to the DOI system
(including creation, maintenance, registration, resolution and policymaking
of DOIs) are available to any DOI registrant.
–DOI resolution free to
any user encountering a DOI.
•See DOI News
October 2004 : “IDF re-affirms DOI as an open specification”