[rights-requirements] Parallel or Complimentary System

[Peter Schirling <schirlin@us.ibm.com>]

All,

per our conference call this morning, let me frame this notion. I am not
going to get hung up terms but try to express the concept of inherent
rights versus granted rights and how we might resolve a means to provide
technology that can enable each of these. Call it fair use call it rights
granted by the US constitution or by EU directive... The notion is:

ASSUMPTIONS.
1. Unless there is a continuous connection between provider and consumer,
even if it exists it will be impractical to modify an expression on how a
digital item can be used each time its "consumer" changes roles and when
the expression traverses geographies as well.

2. Roles are important when dealing with inherent rights. As expressed
today the role of teacher vs consumer, production executive vs consumer,
etc have inherent rights and for expressions to embody all possibilities is
also not practical. Each of us changes roles several times each day from
worker, to digital item creator, to consumer, to parent to.... and the list
goes on

POSSIBILITIES

1. define a complimentary set of expressions to those currently under
consideration (or maybe we have what we need and its only the context that
changes) and the behavior of an associated "enforcement" function that is
bound to a person. Allow it to define roles that that person plays, such as
children, parents, teacher, office manager, ticket agent etc... and define
inherent rights associated with each role.This will vary some not only by
role but by native geography.

2. The enforcement function would then be responsible for resolving
rights/permission (whatever) expressions delivered with the digital item
verses inherent rights and thus what can or cannot be done with a digital
item.


Pete Schirling

Digital Media Standards
IBM Research Division
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