Action vocabulary review by legal firm OLSWANG

ODRL Community:

 

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.

 

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

 

And find attached as second document with generic comments on ODRL by
OLSWANG: OLSWANG-GenericComments-ODRL-RightsML-2014-07_2.pdf

 

>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.

 

Thanks for having a look into the documents and sharing you conclusions.

 

Michael

 

Michael Steidl

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