Re: Alternatives to DRM?

On Apr 15, 2013, at 14:14 , Renato Iannella <ri@semanticidentity.com> wrote:

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> On 13 Apr 2013, at 02:34, Mark Watson <watsonm@netflix.com> wrote:
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>> Your question is a good one, though: are there alternatives to DRM that would meet the goals of content providers and also address some of the concerns that have been raised with DRM ? 
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> There are always alternatives if you can clearly define the "goals of content providers". 
> You could envisage some goals to be awareness-based (ie I just want users to know that this content has these restrictions) right up to the "full" enforcement-based (ie: this content shall only be used this way..)
> The latter is what OMA DRM does [1] - and the former has been covered in different ways, such as the Privacy-aware Social Web [2] 
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> W3C has looked at DRM back in 2001 [3] and today, the latest 2013 W3C eBook Workshop [4] mentions DRM as possible areas of work.

To be very precise, and to avoid misunderstandings: [4] mentions DRM as a topic for the Workshop. This does not necessarily mean as a work for W3C:-) 

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> I think before we jump to any alternatives, we look at the requirements first.
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> Cheers...
> Renato Iannella
> Semantic Identity http://semanticidentity.com
> Chair, W3C ODRL Community Group http://www.w3.org/community/odrl/
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> [1] http://technical.openmobilealliance.org/Technical/release_program/drm_v2_1_2.aspx
> [2] http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/socialweb/XGR-socialweb-20101206/
> [3] http://www.w3.org/2000/12/drm-ws/
> [4] http://www.w3.org/2012/08/electronic-books/Overview.html


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