A Consortium to Secure Digital Intellectual Property (DIP)
9 July 2001, 10 am GMT
How to protect intellectual property online?
That is the question.
The internet is a fantastic medium for sharing and an opportunity to exchange directly between producers and consumers.
Traditionally artists are treated like trash by major record labels, who get fat by squeezing creativity out of highly talented but legally unaware individuals in return for crumbles of the big pie.
The internet is changing all that, but the problem of intellectual property protection remains.
Rightscom, a digital rights strategy consultancy for intellectual property rights holders, has been appointed by the International DOI Foundation and EDItEUR to manage a consortium being assembled to develop a standard data dictionary for digital rights management.
The primary objective of the Indecs>2 project is to facilitate the mapping of proprietary solutions from a variety of software vendors onto a common data layer thus expanding interoperability and, as a result, facilitating the application of technology by rights holders.
Rightscom’s initial task is to bring together the consortium, which will consist of five to six companies with substantial involvement (either as technology providers or as users) in intellectual property management.
Indecs>2 will address the problem of relating the various elements that are required to manage rights in the network environment – abstract data models; descriptive, legal and financial semantics; rights expression languages – through a set of common data structures and definitions.
“The lack of interoperability between technologies is hampering DRM companies, rights holders and consumers alike”
says Chris Barlas, senior consultant at Rightscom. “Allowing behind-the-scenes interoperability at the semantic level will help ensure that ease of access is enhanced for the consumer while maintaining control for the rights holder. The aim of Indecs>2 is effectively to develop a lingua franca for Intellectual Property Rights.”
A limited number of companies are being approached on behalf of the project’s initial sponsors, the International DOI Foundation (IDF) and EDItEUR, to become members of the consortium.
It is planned that the output of Indecs>2 will result in a major submission to MPEG 21’s anticipated Call for Proposals for a Rights Data Dictionary.
www.rightscom.com
www.doi.org
www.editeur.org

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