This paper is the fifth in a series of studies emanating from the UK JISC-funded RoMEO Project
(Rights Metadata for Open-archiving). It reports the results of two surveys of OAI Data Providers
(DPs) and Service Providers (SPs) with regards to the rights issues they face. It finds that very few
DPs have rights agreements with depositing authors and that there is no standard approach to the
creation of rights metadata. The paper considers the rights protection afforded individual and
collections of metadata records under UK Law and contrasts this with DP and SP’s views on the rights
status of metadata and how they wish to protect it. The majority of DP and SPs believe that a standard
way of describing both the rights status of documents and of metadata would be useful.
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GADD, E., OPPENHEIM, C. and PROBETS, S., 2004. RoMEO studies 5: IPR issues facing OAI data and service providers. Electronic Library, 22(2), pp. 121-138