An Intention-oriented Model of Copyright Law for e-Learning: International Semantic Mapping of Copyright Laws Based on A Copyright Ontology

  • Authors:

  • Wenhuan Lu;Mitsuru Ikeda

  • Affiliations:

  • School of knowledge Science, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Japan, wenhuan, ikeda@jaist.ac.jp;School of knowledge Science, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Japan, wenhuan, ikeda@jaist.ac.jp

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 2005 conference on Towards Sustainable and Scalable Educational Innovations Informed by the Learning Sciences: Sharing Good Practices of Research, Experimentation and Innovation
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

Global sharing of e-Learning resources shows a rising tendency. Copyright issue is very important in exchanging e-Learning resources among different countries. However there is a lack of systemic knowledge management methodology for the issue. This study aims to develop a methodology and design an IT framework to provide semantical information on the mapping among multinational copyright laws. For this propose, we have been adopting ontological engineering approach for appropriately representing similarity among multinational laws. In this research, we focus on the “intention behind a law” because the semantic similarity among the laws can be well recognized based on the intention. Copyright law ontology provides well-organized concept to clarify the commonality and the difference among multinational laws. In this paper, we intend to focus on “intention-oriented” multinational copyright law model (“iMCM”), which can formulate domain principle of law. After giving an overview of iMCM, we detail an illustrative example to show how to represent the intention behind the law using common concept defined in ontology.