Re: ODRL is coming back!

Hi Renato, Susanne and Lucinda

I guess you guys are tracking in Creativechain? - https://www.creativechain.org/project/ <https://www.creativechain.org/project/>

I have no connections with that initiative, but it potentially seems the type of application that would benefit from a smart contract language that actually implements meaningful constructs for licensing.

I would be interested in connecting with anyone developing smart contracts for managing IP, please let me know who I should be talking to?

Best regards

Graham

> On 8 Feb 2018, at 12:50, Renato Iannella <r@iannel.la> wrote:
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>> On 8 Feb 2018, at 03:32, Lucinda Lewis <cindy.lewis@me.com <mailto:cindy.lewis@me.com>> wrote:
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>> Most of the group is struggling with Solidity language and some are trying to map their older smart contracts into new code since the fork was make in blockchain last year.
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> Thats probably because they thought Solidtiy was actually a “smart contract” language :-)
> Instead, it is just like any other (4GL) programming language.
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> They say "Solidity is a contract-oriented, high-level language for implementing smart contracts” [1] but there is nothing in the language constructs [2] that represents *any* semantics of a contract. (All they have done is used the word “contract” as the parent container for the code functions).
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> Also see:  https://theconversation.com/smart-contracts-smart-or-dumb-70786 <https://theconversation.com/smart-contracts-smart-or-dumb-70786>
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> ODRL on the other hand…. ;-)))
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> Cheers
> 
> Renato
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> [1] http://solidity.readthedocs.io/en/develop/ <http://solidity.readthedocs.io/en/develop/>
> [2] http://solidity.readthedocs.io/en/develop/solidity-in-depth.html <http://solidity.readthedocs.io/en/develop/solidity-in-depth.html>