[rights-requirements] Email from Patrick

Title: Email from Patrick

Hello All:

The enclosed is the email from Patrick that was forwarded to me...

Regards,

Hari

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Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2002 10:12:51 -0500

To: 

From: "Charles E. Jones" <>

Subject: Re: call for input on digital rights management

Message-Id: <p04320411b94621cc98fe@[128.135.244.85]>

Forwarded at the request of the undersigned.

>Date: Mon, 01 Jul 2002 07:51:55 -0400

>From: Patrick Durusau <>

>

>Greetings,

>

>I deeply appreciate Robin Cover's post to the list requesting DRM 

>requirements and would urge the academic community to response 

>appropriately, even given the rather short deadline for requirements 

>(7 August 2002).

>

>In terms of deciding to devote summer hours to this task, please 

>consider the membership of this TC:

>

>Hari Reddy, Chairperson ContentGuard

>Carlisle Adams, Entrust

>Bob Atkinson, Microsoft

>Thomas DeMartini, ContentGuard

>John Erickson, H.P.

>Brad Gandee, Secretary ContentGuard

>Bob Glushko, CommerceOne

>Thomas Hardjono, Verisign

>Hal Lockhart, Entegrity

>M. Paramasivam, Microsoft

>David Parrott, Reuters

>Harry Piccariello, ContentGuard

>Peter Schirling, IBM

>Xin Wang, ContentGuard

>

>While I am sure all the members of the TC will try to develop a 

>standard that represents the interests of everyone affected by the 

>DRM standard, I fail to see any representation of the academic, 

>library or other communities. That is not to imply any fault on the 

>part of the TC or OASIS, as a community academics have tended to 

>absent themselves from such discussions.

>

>The interests of the academic community in issues such as "fair use" 

>and allowing free (or at least non-commercial) use of texts and 

>research will not be well served by a standard that protects the 

>commercial rights in the "Lion King" and similar artifacts. Our 

>requirements are different and any standard for DRM should not 

>attempt a one size fits all solution. I am sure that the TC would 

>welcome academic input that would lead to a more nuanced standard 

>that meets a wide range of needs, one of the hallmarks of a 

>successful standard.

>

>Note that a DRM standard will eventually find its way into 

>hardware/software and it will be too late to complain at that point 

>that it does not meet the needs of the academic community.

>

>Please forward Robin's note (and my comments if you think 

>appropriate) to anyone you know who is interested in "fair use" or 

>more generally access to academic materials, since a DRM standard 

>will deeply affect both issues.

>

>Patrick