RE: [rights] Apologies + RLTC/XACML

["DuCharme, Bob (LNG)" <bob.ducharme@lexisnexis.com>]

>if you're in the modern "content ownership" business, be
>prepared for routine mistreatment from the pen
>of content creators whose "work" has come to be owned
>or controlled by others -- middlemen who stand between
>author and reader, for example, having extorted
>or by other means acquired others' content as
>commercial property...

Actually, this gets right to something that has directly increased our
interest in DRM. As a counterexample to what you describe, Tasini didn't
blame us that the freelance work he did for the New York Times was available
on LexisNexis; he blamed the Times for sending it to us as part of their
content to redistribute as per our agreement with the Times. (These
extortion charges are a bit much. If suppliers didn't pay middlemen to make
content available on new media, there wouldn't have been much of an SGML
industry to build XML on. But of course you were joking about that.)

When the Times tells us "there's a bunch of material that we sent you that
is now available on your system--now make it unavailable," which it is
within their right to do, we want to be able to honor that request quickly
and easily. Consistent markup for metadata, especially DRM-related metadata,
should go a long way to making this possible.

Bob