This is a crucial point, and where the rubber really meets the road.
How do we enforce digital rights in an open, interoperable software
environment? Well, we don't have the answer to that yet, but that's
our goal.
And as an industry consortium comprising every type of organization
from commercial, open source, academic, govt. etc, nothing less will do.
Any ideas on how to make rights work within a heterogeneous software
environment is welcome.
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Raj
On Oct 16, 2006, at 6:47 PM, Lars Aronsson wrote:
Raj Singh wrote:
Yes, the technical mechanism for doing this *could* end up being
a pain in the neck, like music DRM is now. But at least we'll
take away one excuse for not sharing data.
To enforce the displaying of such a disclaimer, you would have to
force the use of a particular software. You couldn't use open
formats for which anybody can write free software, without your
approval. And thus you *are not* sharing the data, so that excuse
is not lifted.
This is what happens today when some public offices think it is
enougth to publish a ".doc" MS Word document. The moral
requirement on such offices is to publish using open formats that
can be used by anybody.
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