Role of Digital Object Identifier (DOI) in Managing IPR Issues in Digital Environment

The article discusses IPR issues in digital environment along with its coverage. The digital content which includes photos, text, pages, colour, illustration, audio and video clips needs proper IPR management including licensing, negotiations and monitoring and awareness costs. It emphasizes on the structure, features and role of DOI. By integrating an identifier into a DOI the identifier becomes actionable as a standard hyperlink and can function in DOI applications across a variety of platforms. A variety of different identifiers systems become readily interoperable when incorporated into DOI.