RE: Digital Content Rights - Call for conference papers

I agree that a conference put on by a commercial conference organiser is not
the place where industry policy or standards should be resolved. As someone
who organised several conferences in the 90s within the Imprimatur and
Indecs projects, I believe it is important to have neutral occasions at
which people can come together and dicuss the issues at a consistently
informed level. These conferences are best convened by people who have a
considerable knowledge of the subject but no axe to grind. The trouble with
commercial conference organisers is that they are doing DRM one day and the
solubility of spreadable butter the next. 

Chris


-----Original Message-----
From: Jonathan D. Hahn [mailto:jdh@versaware.com]
Sent: 07 February 2001 10:03
To: DRM-Public-List
Subject: RE: Digital Content Rights - Call for conference papers


Yes and Yes.

There is a critical difference between educating the public and providing a
floating industry version of Speaker's Corner on the one hand, and the type
of industry Working Group that can provide an industry forum, and (in some
cases) even produce a workable Standard on the other.

As Norman has pointed out, there is a good deal of informative conferencing
out there.  The IQPC DRM event in London last week was, for the most part,
free of infomercials.

Nevertheless, I believe the the aftermath of Sophia should produce a working
plan that draws on existing works and creates a product consistent with the
stated goals of the W3C.

Also, John would have appreciated the Technical Committee sessions of the
EBX Working Group "in terms of (a) hard-core, open technical presentations
and (b) real-live, working sessions".

- jdh

PS
Note that the future maintenance of the EBX Specification is being
undertaken by the Rights and Rules WG of the OeBF.


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-----Original Message-----
From: www-drm-request@w3.org [mailto:www-drm-request@w3.org]On Behalf Of
Paskin, Norman (DOI-ELS)
Sent: Tuesday, February 06, 2001 7:49 PM
To: DRM-Public-List
Subject: RE: Digital Content Rights - Call for conference papers


I agree with John.  IBC is one of several purely commercial conference/event
organisers who have picked up the DRM issue as an item of importance
(another one which has been doing this recently is IQPC, and I think RBI.
That's fine, and their success in attracting audiences (typically 20-50)
shows their meetings have a place.  But they serve a rather different
audience, and have a different aim, to the sort of discussion we got into in
Sophia.  They have no standards formation role, or follow through
activities.  These general conferences do not get into the meat of the
issue. In my experience, having spoken at several of them, they tend to
operate at the level of talks on "why do I need to manage content".  Getting
into details of ontology, rights expression languages, etc, is not what they
are about.

-----Original Message-----
From: John Erickson [mailto:john_erickson@hplb.hpl.hp.com]
Sent: 06 February 2001 16:27
To: DRM-Public-List
Subject: Re: Digital Content Rights - Call for conference papers


At the risk of sounding arrogant...

It is not clear to me whether or not the conference referred to (below)
would be an appropriate forum for the level of discussion we would like to
have. I worry that much of what we focused on in Nice, and presumably would
like to focus on in future forums, would be lost on this audience (but I
don't know for sure).

When it comes to rights management conferences and forums, we really must
try to "separate the wheat from the chaff." I've participated in and/or have
chaired a few over the last year or so, and they almost always turn out to
be marketing events --- opportunities for vendors to display their wares to
publishers, etc, etc.

The W3C DRM Workshop was the first rights management event I've been at
since the mid-90's that even approached what I would like to see in terms of
(a) hard-core, open technical presentations and (b) real-live, working
sessions. We need to search for and/or create a whole new type of forum for
the rights management sector, in which open interchanges contribute at
fundamental levels to interoperability, standardization and (in general)
better understanding of the sector.

Just a few thoughts!

----- Original Message -----
From: "Peter Schirling" <schirlin@us.ibm.com>
To: "DRM-Public-List" <www-drm@w3.org>
Sent: Tuesday, February 06, 2001 8:17 AM
Subject: Digital Content Rights - Call for conference papers


> DRM Workshop colleagues,
>
> It seems we were among the first to hold a DRM forum...  The IBC is the
> equivalent in Europe of the NAB in the US ... the Broadcast Industry.
> Perhaps we, and MPEG as well I think, should be represented at this event.
> It falls one week before the July MPEG meeting now scheduled for Sydney
the
> week of 16 July.
>
> Pete Schirling
>
> Digital Media Standards and Commercialisation
> IBM Research Division
> Office: +1 802 769 6123/Mobile: +1 802 238 2036/E-Fax: +1 802 769 7362
> Internet e-mail: schirlin@us.ibm.com
> ---------------------- Forwarded by Peter Schirling/Burlington/IBM on
> 02/06/2001 08:12 AM ---------------------------
>
> "Winterbottom, Daniel" <daniel.winterbottom@informa.com> on 02/06/2001
> 05:20:26 AM
>
> To:
> cc:
> Subject:  Digital Content Rights - Call for conference papers
>
>
>
> Digital Content Rights
> Protecting Intellectual Property and Revenue with Digital Rights
Management
>
> IBC is proud top announce a brand new event, Digital Content Rights,
taking
> place in London, on the 9th and 10th of July, 2001. This industry focused
> event will be examining the issues surrounding the successful
> implementation
> of digital rights management systems and how this will impact the new
media
> economy.
>
> Invitations are currently open for speakers who wish to present at this
> event to submit proposals for potential topics. The topics and a short
> synopsis (100 words max.) should be emailed to
> daniel.winterbottom@informa.com.
>
> Possible topics include (but are not restricted to):
>
> Protecting your revenue and intellectual property
> The Napster/Gnutella/Freenet model and the impact on Digital Content
Rights
> The DRM value chain
> Market trends and segmentation
> Driving revenue streams with rights management
> Case Study - e-Books: Progress so far and a roadmap for the future
> Assessing the legal ramifications of DRM implementation
> Legislation, Compliance and Enforcement
> Certification and authentication for a secure distribution system
> Binding content to a device or user
> The role of cryptography
> Combining hardware and software for secure DRM solutions
> Ensuring universal compatibility and interoperability for digital content
> rights management
> The role of XML in standardisation of DRM
> Positioning the W3C in the DRM market
> Implementing end to end solutions
> Tracking Mechanisms
> Utilising the full potential of metadata and archiving
> The clearinghouse as an enabler for usable rights management
> Outsourcing DRM
> Content deployment
> Converting analogue content for the digital age
> Migrating content to the digital market place
> Assessing and valuing content
> DRM and the mobile user
>
> Submissions should be received no later than February 26th, 2001. Please
> ensure that you include your full contact details with your submission.
>
> I look forward to hearing from you.
>
> Daniel Winterbottom
> Researcher,
> IBC Global Conferences, IT and Telecoms
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