Title: RE: [rights-examples] ln005: use case with markup for review
Bob,
Thanks
for the comments.
>[rga]
To me this would be fine and wonderful if it included one additional
>step,
namely a verification that the resources listed in the license found
>in
fact applied to the work in question.
In the kind of supplier/aggregator scenario that I'm thinking of, each
pointer from content to a license is essentially the supplier saying
"aggregator, here's what you're allowed to do with this one." There's
really nothing for the aggregator to verify; they've received an
identification of the instructions for what they're allowed to do with that
content.
I can't picture a
variation in which either party has an incentive to intentionally misstate
rights so that someone gains access to something they might not otherwise be
able to use, which seems to me to be at the root of a lot of such security
concerns.
Also, if the
supplier starts sending a new class of content and wants to apply the same
licensing conditions that exist for a previous class, it would be much easier to
have documents of the new class point to the existing license than to put the
license through an update (approval, rollout, etc.)
cycle.
>[rga] Are not all such "resource to license
pointers" from a logical perspective
>merely hints, in that once located, it would
be the license itself which authoritatively
>resolved
whether or not it applied to the resource in question?
In my scenario, the license describes a set of
conditions, and the the supplier indicates the usage conditions that apply to a
document by including a pointer from the document to the license. The resolution
of who's allowed to do what with the work needs no identification of the work in
question, because the work is what you start
with.
Perhaps I'm
trying to bend a well-understood concept of what exactly constitutes a license
too far to fit my needs. Still, while I always hate terminology misuse to prove
a point, my real goal is figure out how to fit XrML to my industry's needs, and
not the other way around--it will make XrML a lot easier to sell back at the
office.
Bob DuCharme
