- From: Renato Iannella <renato@iprsystems.com>
- Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 17:12:01 +1000
- To: www-drm@w3.org
--On 20/3/01 12:13 PM +0100 Rigo Wenning wrote: > This article show's, that we were right to try a balanced > approach at the DRM-Workshop. It show's the potential traps of a > rights management language. I think, this is valuable input and > that we should remember it while designing a language. It also shows the need for a _standard_ DRM Language so that when the application says "Give" or "Print" - even "Read Aloud" the consumer knows how they have been defined (and by whom). > Especially, we should be able to express, that the copyright has > expired... This depends on the country - see [1] for the range of durations for Australia. The duration will vary depending on the Type of material (eg a Musical work Versus a Photograph) and, in some cases, related to the death of the "author". An important piece of data for copyright is the dates of first performance/publication. Cheers...Renato <http://purl.net/net/renato> Chief Scientist, IPR Systems Pty Ltd <http://iprsystems.com> [1] http://www.copyright.org.au/PDF/InfoSheets/G023v04.pdf
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