On 16 Oct 2006, at 15:08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
One of the (few) benefits of having used the term GeoDRM for the present geo-rights work is that it does flush out people who are mainly looking for a demon to hunt and use abusive language rather than actually talking and thinking about how intellectual property rights work for all Web users. It's a bit like saying that anyone who uses the term soccer / football is just a hooligan talking about head-butting.
Not really. All current DRM implementations involve mechanisms that impinge on legitimate users while offering little deterrent to determined thieves. If this is different perhaps it should have a different name.
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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.
So just to be clear does any part of GeoDRM concern itself with an encoding scheme that is comparable with say, FairPlay? Or is it all just metadata that describes ownership, usage restrictions &c?
Or to put it another way is there any part of GeoDRM that would be incompatible with the implementation of a free software decoder?
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