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

On 2016-08-16 17:19, Timothy Holborn wrote:
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> On Wed, 17 Aug 2016 at 01:14 Steven Rowat <steven_rowat@sunshine.net <mailto:steven_rowat@sunshine.net>> wrote:
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>     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
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>     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'.
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> Creative commons demonstrates this concept, but not for platform licensing.

Tim,
I must confess that I haven't the faintest idea of what you are talking about :-(

Who licenses what from whom, and most important of all, why?

Anders

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