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.
Keywords semantic web service - intellectual property rights - copyright - automated contracting