Re: Action vocabulary review by legal firm OLSWANG

Thanks Michael,

This is really a very valuable document.

Víctor

El 17/07/2014 13:13, Michael Steidl (IPTC) escribió:
>
> 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
>
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Víctor Rodríguez-Doncel
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