2. • We’ on a sort of grail
re
quest to…
– Make content available
nobly
– Defend the innocent from
piracy
• 21st century rights
management
• Why rights still matter
• Some practical ideas to
get started on the quest
3. 21st c. rights management
“
The answer to the
machine is in the
machine”
Charles Clark
3
4. Why rights still matter
“...for the encouragement of learning, by vesting
the copies of printed books in the authors or
purchasers of such copies… ”
The Statute of Anne
“ promote the progress of science and useful
To
arts, by securing for limited times to authors and
inventors the exclusive right to their respective
writings and discoveries”
4 Article 1, Section 8 of the US Constitution
5. Practical ideas, 1
• Embrace XML
– for production,
formats, product
information and rights
metadata
– StartwithXML Forum in
London 2/9/09
– Survey at
http://www.surveymon
key.com/s.aspx?sm=w
AUoAZuCDuPqYOxL
Hf4yZw_3d_3d
6. Practical ideas, 2
• Don’stint on security
t
– Investigate watermarks
such as date/time stamps
– DRM can be very useful,
but be aware that it will
currently cause problems
for people with print
disabilities
– Think about ‘social DRM’
– Look for online
infringements, and take
action
• A detection pilot is
underway
• The Copyright
Infringement Portal is
fantastically useful
8. Practical ideas, 3
•Have clear, easy, satisfying agreements
–Be green! Recycle!
–Communicate these in a legal form, a
machine-readable form, and a form
meaningful to human beings
–Available for purchase, if needed, where the
content is found
9. 21st c. approaches
1. Standards for permissions communication
– ACAP, Creative Commons, PLUS, ONIX-PL
2. Services
– Attributor, Clip&Copy, eClips, iCopyright,
Grant Permission Online, OZMO,
RightsConnect, RightsLink
3. Registries
– ARROW, the Book Rights Registry
10. Sales Customers
Content Platforms
Intermediaries
consumer
Open web content
iCopyright
Rightslink
Rightsholder
Protected web content library
eClips
iCopyright
Aggregated protected content
business
ACAP and ONIX, Content + Rights
the lingua franca Money + Usage Reports
of rights
11. – Use ONIX standards for ONIX Example 1
communicating product
and rights information in ONIX Example 2
machine readable form
– http://www.editeur.org/onix
_licensing.html
– If procuring any sort of
publishing system, ask that
it is ONIX-PL compliant
12. Chasing the grail game plan…
•Embrace XML
•Don’ stint on security
t
•Have clear, easy to enter, satisfying
agreements (for lawyers, machines, and
humans)
•Dabble with a few of the innovative
services out there, and interact with these
services via ONIX wherever possible
