Paid Content Community Group Proposed

The Paid Content Community Group has been proposed:

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The Paid Content Community Group exists to promote support for paid-for
content on the web, including enabling better mechanisms for discovery,
pricing, transactions, storage and access control. As the web matures,
users are increasingly willing to pay for quality content.  Advertising
revenue for conventional publishing is also in decline. Consequently the
ability to sell content efficiently is increasingly important to sustain
expensively produced content such as investigative journalism.


The PCCG considers issues including:


1. Metadata formats for expressing pricing and subscription packages and
terms
2. Content payment use cases (as a contribution to WPWG)
3. Access control issues (eg. 'First click free', time limited access
etc)
4. Consumer rights over purchased content (eg lending, reselling,
portability between devices, independence from publisher control)

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You are invited to support the creation of this group:
  http://www.w3.org/community/groups/proposed#paidcontent

Once the group has a total of five supporters, it will be launched and
people can join to begin work. Once launched, the group will no longer
be listed as "proposed"; it will appear in the list of current groups:
  http://www.w3.org/community/groups/

In order to support the group, you will need a W3C account. To request one:
  http://www.w3.org/accounts/request

If you believe that there is an issue with this group that requires
the attention of the W3C staff, please send us email on
site-comments@w3.org.

Thank you,
W3C Community Development Team

Received on Friday, 23 September 2016 12:40:15 UTC