Hi,
Thanks for all of the responses and comments, and I really do mean
all of them. Light of day is my biggest goal. What strikes me about
your SENC example, Frank, is that it could only work for the
particular provider if consumers did not really understand what was
being done and that there could easily be alternatives with different
technical means, business model, and usage rights. In a sense, it
serves both sides to take this narrow view of DRM, "It's not DRM if
it isn't some awkward and unfair enforcement mechanism".
That said, help me come up with a better term for work on a rights
framework. Time to retire the "hit me" label.
Cheers,
Josh
On Oct 16, 2006, at 10:42 AM, Frank Warmerdam wrote:
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The point of the present GeoDRM work, however some might want to
demonize it on the basis of the term, is first and foremost to
define a system of rights information (metadata and protocols)
which lets anyone who uses geospatial intellectual property,
communicate and be clear on the terms of that use. This seems to
me in the end a clearer and more effective way of documenting
unfairness in particular protection schemes and moving toward more
fair, less proprietary systems, than cracking them and ranting
about them, but that's just my preference.
Josh,
I'm pretty enthusiastic about a GeoDRM that aims to systematically,
clearly
and unambiguously describe use-rights of geodata.
I'm less enthusiastic about DRM activities that are primarily
focused on
building a software (and sometimes hardware) stack that enforces
restrictions
against the will of the user, since the usual approach to achieving
this is
to close and "lock" the software.
As I noted after your talk at FOSS4G, the case that really gets
under my skin
is SENC (Secure Electronic Digital Charts) which seek to limit the
data
to view-only on a single hardware instance, primarily to support a
particular revenue model. As you can imagine actually enforcing
this leads
to quite a closed system.
I think it is very helpful to bring forward use cases for GeoDRM
that are
useful, while not ultimately requiring an extremely closed approach.
Otherwise those of us a bit predisposed against DRM will always
project
our worse case scenarios onto the name. :-)
Best regards,
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