I honestly don't know why people would make their metadata available for the world to use, and then start worrying about protecting it from use. It's the same story time after time, an open dataspace is created, people flood the space with data to take advantage of the free access, and then they start thinking about how to close off the space. Anyhow. This article describes the efforts of The RoMEO Project (Rights Metadata for Open archiving). "It is investigating all the intellectual property rights (IPR) issues relating to the self-archiving of research papers via institutional repositories. One key issue is how best to protect such research papers, and the metadata describing those papers, in an open access environment." See what I mean? My one-cent solution is this: if you don't want people to use your metadata, don't publish it. And for goodness sake, don't make life miserable for the rest of us just because you can't exercise a little self restraint. I mean, what the heck do you think 'Open Access Environment' means?
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