Re: Action vocabulary review by legal firm OLSWANG

Thanks Michael (and the IPTC) for undertaking this important work.

We will schedule a skye call this month to discuss the recommendations (poll to come out soon).

In the meantime, please all review the document (send any comments/feedback as well..)

Renato


On 17 Jul 2014, at 21:13, Michael Steidl (IPTC) <mdirector@iptc.org> wrote:

> ODRL Community:
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> In the past the question „will the definition of action X be accepted by a lawyer” popped up from time to time and this fostered at IPTC the plan to hand over the latest ODRL Action vocabulary draft to a legal firm for a deep review and improving the legal quality of the vocabulary by that.
> The draft was handed over in May and a few days ago we received a document with OLSWANG’s proposals of changes and a rich set of comments.
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> To provide an easy view on the current draft and the proposed changes we’ve created a document presenting both side by side and adding a column with the comments.
> Find this document attached: ODRL-Action-vocabulary-reviewedDRAFT-2014-07-16.pdf
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> And find attached as second document with generic comments on ODRL by OLSWANG: OLSWANG-GenericComments-ODRL-RightsML-2014-07_2.pdf
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> From our point of view this review raises the need for these decisions:
> 1)      Does the ODRL community agree to the minor modifications of the wording of semantics and comments?
> 2)      Does ODRL cover digital content assets *and* physical object assets? Only in this case the actions lease and lend make sense, says OLSWANG, else they should be removed. (We feel this must be written down somewhere in the specs.)
> 3)      OLSWANG sees a need in their comments that ODRL defines a legal context for policies. The key issue is: the ODRL action vocabulary defines about 30 actions, a policy permits 2 of them – what about the other actions?
> 4)      And OLSWANG points at the use case of having a textual license contract as background for an ODRL policy – how to express this.
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> Thanks for having a look into the documents and sharing you conclusions.
>  
> Michael
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