1. Attaching Rights to Content Larry Lannom Corporation for National Research Initiatives http://www.cnri.reston.va.us/ http://www.handle.net/ Copyright © 2004 Corporation for National Research Initiatives You are free to copy, distribute, display, and perform the work under the following conditions: Attribution. You must give the author and CNRI credit. Noncommercial. You may not use this work for commercial purposes. Please do not abridge, alter, or edit material in any way that alters the author's intentions.

2. Corporation for National Research Initiatives Digital Data in Networked Environments Current Model –Information assumed to be transient Web pages - CNN, Google, etc. –Information assumed to be semi-permanent PDF, Word, email, etc. But it is all bits - easily kept, altered, replicated, re-disseminated, etc. --- hard to manage And it all exists in some IPR context

3. Corporation for National Research Initiatives DRM: evolving technologies & businesses Goal - enable content owners to define and possibly control access to and use of content Digital Management of Rights –Not management of digital rights Human readable or machine actionable? –Natural language vs machine encoding Define or Enforce? –Define: policy can be known –Enforce: constrain behavior to follow policy How to express policy and connect it to content Digital Rights Management (DRM)

4. Corporation for National Research Initiatives Rights Expression Language (REL) –State the rights such that they can be ‘understood’ by computers –Standardization is vital –XrML is an emerging standard Rights Data Dictionary (RDD) –Define the terms used in the REL –Problem - multiple vocabularies – project attempts to mediate Encoding

5. Corporation for National Research Initiatives XrML

6. Corporation for National Research Initiatives Simple pointer in content to a fixed location for encoded policy –Problem - things move (404) Persistent identifiers linking content and encoded policy –Requires resolution system and more standards Tight binding of content and policy –Can’t have one without the other –Problem - can never change the policy Associate Encoded Policy with Content

7. Corporation for National Research Initiatives Simple Pointer

8. Naming Resources on the Net The Problem Internet chapter.pdf www.acme.com

9. Internet Naming Resources on the Net The Solution Name = Value(s) 10.123/xyz = http://www.acme.com/chapter.pdf Naming Service http://www.acme.com/chapter.pdf www.acme.com

10. Internet Naming Resources on the Net The Solution Name = Value(s) 10.123/xyz = http://www.newbusiness.com/chapter.pdf http://www.newbusiness.com/chapter.pdf Naming Service www.newbusiness.com www.acme.com

11. Corporation for National Research Initiatives Distributed, scalable, secure Enforces unique names Enables association of one or more typed values, e.g., URL, with each name Optimized for speed and reliability Open, well-defined protocol and data model Provides infrastructure for application domains, e.g., digital libraries, electronic publishing... CNRI Handle System

12. Corporation for National Research Initiatives Handles Resolve to Typed Data URL2http://a-books.com/…. DLS9acme/repository HS_ADMIN100acme.admin/jsmith XYZ 1001110011110 12 Handle data Handle Data type Index 10.123/456URL1http://acme.com/….

13. Handle Resolution is a collection of handle services, each of which consists of one or more replicated sites, Site 1Site 2 Site 1 Site 2 Site 3 …... Site n Client The Handle System LHS GHR each of which may have one or more servers. 123.456/abcURL 4 http://www.acme.com/ http://www.ideal.com/8 URL #1#2#n#4#3 #1#2...

14. Tool Bar Demo 1 – Version XMP

15. Tool Bar cnri.test.jsn/pdf TYPEDATA http://host-4-211/book-newversion.pdfurl last_modified2002-06-13T14:06:03-03:00 DOI Handle Record 2002-06-13T14:06:03-03:00 http://host-4-211/book-newversion.pdf Internet Handle System Demo 1 – Version

16. Tool Bar Demo 1 – Version

17. Demo 4 – Rights XMP

18. Handle System cnri.test.jsn/doi.rights TYPEDATA http://kaluha/~jpetrone/doi_rights.htmldoi.rights DOI Handle Record Internet Demo 4 – Rights

19. XMP Demo 4 – Rights