Re: How the father of the World Wide Web plans to reclaim it from Facebook and Google

On Wed, 17 Aug 2016 at 01:14 Steven Rowat <steven_rowat@sunshine.net> wrote:

> On 8/16/16 7:38 AM, Timothy Holborn wrote:
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> > don't need lawyers - just need a 'magna carta for the web', not a new
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> Might ODRL, (Open Digital Rights Language), which specifies in detail
> the policy of the data's creator/owner, including downstream rights
> for usage (commercial, non-commercial, any mix), be something like
> that 'magna carta for the web', -- if it was legally binding?
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> I believe the works of ODRL have enormous merit. However, i believe the
legal mechanism for enabling a legally-binding usage term is via 'license'.

Creative commons demonstrates this concept, but not for platform licensing.


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