[rights-examples] FW: Revised examples

Title: FW: Revised examples

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-----Original Message-----

From: Aaron Burstein [mailto:]

Sent: Monday, November 11, 2002 3:55 PM

To: Reddy, Hari; Rights-Examples (E-mail);

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Subject: Re: Revised examples

Hari,

Point 3(b) should have been written to reflect the structure in 3(a): 

the school administrator communicates that she can print N copies of 

the excerpt of the book.

Thanks,

Aaron

Reddy, Hari wrote:

> Hi Aaron/Dean:

> In use case 3, bullet b, who communicates to the school administrator

> that he/she can print an excerpt of the book N times?

>

> Thanks...

>

> Regards,

> Hari

>

>

> -----Original Message-----

> From: Aaron Burstein [mailto:]

> Sent: Friday, November 08, 2002 12:36 PM

> To: DeMartini, Thomas; Reddy, Hari; DuCharme, Bob (LNG-EWR)

> Cc: ; ;

> 

> Subject: Revised examples

>

>

> Hi everyone --

> I've attempted to reduce our previous set of examples to display the

> entities and communications of interest. (I included the original

> examples just for reference.) I hope this takes things in the right

> direction -- If these need further refinement please let me and Dean

> know. Thanks.

>

> Aaron

>

> 1. Alice, a music critic, publishes reviews on her own Web site.

> There is no fee required for access to the site, and Alice attracts

> enough readers to have attracted the attention of record company

> executives. Alice's reviews always contain excerpts from the work

> under review. This week she is reviewing the latest release from a

> band whose last four albums she has panned. After listening to this

> new album, Alice knows that her review will be critical. She knows

> that seeking permission to sample portions of the album will be

> fruitless, so she simply extracts what she needs and links the

> streaming audio files to her review.

>

> Entities:

> 1. Alice

> 2. Any visitor to her web site

>

> Communications:

> A. Alice tells Alice she can excerpt relevant portions the musical

> recording. (Note that it is central to the example that Alice does

> not seek permission from the original issuer of the rule set that she

> possesses.)

> B. Alice tells any visitor to her web site (see (2), supra) that he

> can listen to the excerpt.

>

> 2. Professor Carole has decided to put several textual and multimedia

> works from her personal collection on digital reserve for her history

> course this term. Each of her students must have access to these

> artifacts for the term of the course, in several popular formats.

> They will have the ability to include excerpts of these works in

> their term projects.

>

> Entities:

> 1. Professor Carole

> 2. The students in her class

>

> Communications:

> A. Professor Carole tells Professor Carole that she can convert the

> relevant works from their initial format to her format of choice.

> B. Professor Carole tells her students that they can use excerpts of

> the works that she makes available. (Professor Carole and her

> individual students would probably define specific excerpts, which

> Professor Carole would then explicitly authorize.)

>

> 3. A non-profit school for the blind owns a Braille printer. The

> school uses this printer to reproduce excerpts of an electronic

> version of the biography of an important political figure for some of

> its students.

>

> Entities:

> 1. School administrator

> 2. The electronic version of a book in viewable character (i.e.,

> non-Braille) format

> 3. Braille printing device

> Communications:

> A. School administrator tells school administrator that he can print

> an excerpt of the book in (2).

> B. School administrator can repeat (A)  N times, for each of the N

> students in the class.