The Web of Data is assisting to a growth of interest with respect to the open challenge of representing and reasoning in an automated way over licenses and copyright. In this paper, we deal with the problem of checking the composing together a set of licensing terms associated to a single query result on the Web of Data to create a so called composite license. More precisely, we analyze two com...

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copyright is basics in development and therefore the authors have monopoly rights .but, the progress of science is depended to modification& distribution of works .now, copy left license is created and while a copyright generally enables a person to claim “all rights-reserved,” a copy left generally means “some – rights - reserved. there is the shift from copyright licenses to copy left license...

This paper describes a dataset of licenses expressed as RDF. The most important rights and conditions present in licenses for software, data and general works are expressed with the Open Digital Rights Language (ODRL) 2.0 vocabulary and extensions thereof. The dataset contains licenses identified by a dereferenceable URI, which are served with content negotiation providing a double representati...