Contracting and copyright issues for composite semantic services

Abstract

In business webs within the Internet of Services arbitrary services shall be composed to new composite services and therewith creating tradeable goods. A composite service can be part of another composite service and so on. Since business partners can meet just for one transaction not having regular business which justifies frame contracts, ad-hoc automated contracting needs to be established. In addition services have an intangible character and therefore are prone to illegal reproduction. Thus intellectual property rights have to be considered. Our research approach is to assess the applicability of copyright law for semantic web services and develop a concept for automated contracting. Methodologies to be used are in the field of ontology modeling and reasoning. © 2008 Springer Berlin Heidelberg.