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Call for Input on Content Control
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Seth Johnson
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Jul 01, 2002 08:42 PDT
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(Forwarded from Digital Copyright list,
digital-c-@lists.umuc.edu)
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Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2002 10:12:51 -0500
From: "Charles E. Jones" <ce-@midway.uchicago.edu>
Forwarded at the request of the undersigned.
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From: Patrick Durusau <pdur-@emory.edu>
Greetings,
I deeply appreciate Robin Cover's post to the list
requesting DRM requirements and would urge the
academic community to response appropriately, even
given the rather short deadline for requirements
(7 August 2002).
In terms of deciding to devote summer hours to
this task, please consider the membership of this
TC:
Hari Reddy, Chairperson ContentGuard
Carlisle Adams, Entrust
Bob Atkinson, Microsoft
Thomas DeMartini, ContentGuard
John Erickson, H.P.
Brad Gandee, Secretary ContentGuard
Bob Glushko, CommerceOne
Thomas Hardjono, Verisign
Hal Lockhart, Entegrity
M. Paramasivam, Microsoft
David Parrott, Reuters
Harry Piccariello, ContentGuard
Peter Schirling, IBM
Xin Wang, ContentGuard
While I am sure all the members of the TC will
try to develop a standard that represents the
interests of everyone affected by the DRM
standard, I fail to see any representation of
the academic, library or other communities.
That is not to imply any fault on the part of
the TC or OASIS, as a community academics have
tended to absent themselves from such
discussions.
The interests of the academic community in
issues such as "fair use" and allowing free
(or at least non-commercial) use of texts and
research will not be well served by a standard
that protects the commercial rights in the
"Lion King" and similar artifacts. Our
requirements are different and any standard
for DRM should not attempt a one size fits all
solution. I am sure that the TC would welcome
academic input that would lead to a more
nuanced standard that meets a wide range of
needs, one of the hallmarks of a successful
standard.
Note that a DRM standard will eventually find
its way into hardware/software and it will be
too late to complain at that point that it
does not meet the needs of the academic
community.
Please forward Robin's note (and my comments
if you think appropriate) to anyone you know
who is interested in "fair use" or more
generally access to academic materials, since
a DRM standard will deeply affect both issues.
Patrick
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Date: Mon, 01 Jul 2002 06:40:20 +0100
From: Robin Cover
Subject: Request for DRM Requirements
An OASIS Rights Language Technical Committee
[1] has been established to "define the
industry standard for a rights language" that
would govern many application domains,
including (potentially) digital libraries and
archive projects. The TC has is using an
XrML markup language specification from
ContentGuard (Xerox and Microsoft) as the
basis for defining this common standard.
Requirements are now being collected as input
to the standard's design. A request is hereby
made for input from the academic community,
(digital) libraries, museums, archive centers
[etc], including persons affiliated with ALA
or RLG. The relevant OASIS subcommittee will
collect requirements through August 7, 2002.
Current legislative proposals for
incorporating DRM technology and usage
policies into computer hardware, operating
system software, and applications level
software raise the stakes for the humanities
community, especially as traditional notions
of fair use are being challenged as too
burdensome to implement in DRM systems. The
Creative Commons Project [2] exemplifies the
attempt of one group to counter this trend,
but the effects of a government-mandated
universal DRM technology are of concern to a
growing number of technologists [3].
Any interested party having access to DRM
specifications or implementations, or
otherwise motivated to help in the submission
of 'rights management' requirements for
humanities computing applications is invited
to send email expressing this interest.
Robin Cover
rob-@isogen.com
[1] http://xml.coverpages.org/oasisRightsLanguage.html
[2] http://www.creativecommons.org/
[3] http://xml.coverpages.org/patents.html
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Patrick Durusau
Director of Research and Development
Society of Biblical Literature
pdur-@emory.edu
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