Preserving Intellectual Property Rights

in the long term

CASPAR All Hands Meeting - Rome, 15-16 September 2009

Demo

m.valentini@metaware.it

Demo Outline

• Validation of DRM Key Component and Digital Rights Ontology on Contemporary Arts testbeds– INA and CIANT examples

Scenario Tool User Result

Creation of Provenance (PDI) data objects

Artistic Testbed CommunityMember

2 RDF files

Update of Provenance PDI (i.e. rights) after a change in Copyright Law

DRM preservation expert

n RDF files

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• 2 Scenarios:

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Introduction to the Problem

Many kinds of archive content have property rightsarchive content have property rights on it– Copyright

• on Literary, Artistic and Scientific Works– Neighbouring Rights (also “Related Rights”, “Sui Generis Rights”)

• on Performances, Databases, SW Programs (Scientific Data), Traditional Culture Expressions (Cultural Data)

– Industrial Property Right• on Scientific Inventions, Discoveries, Trademarks, Industrial Designs

which impose limitations• Explicit authorization is required by the right holders or by the Legislation

to the actions • Distribute, Copy (Reproduce), Modify, License to third parties, …

taken by people • Taken by the Curator • Taken by an End-User

Scenario 1

• Requirement – To capture and preserve all Provenance events that originated the rights

User User at INAat INA

Life CycleLife Cycle

IPRsIPRs

Rights Ontology/RDF

CIDOC/RDF

DRM DRM

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• Objective: “User-friendly” Creation of PDI (Provenance)1. Life Cycle of the work ‘Spaces of Mind’

2. Intellectual Property Rights on ‘Spaces of Mind’

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Digital Rights Ontology

A Domain ontology – About Intellectual Property

Rights

– To describe all aspects that are relevant to evaluate rights

– Attributes of rights– Validity in time and space– Laws and Agreements– People– Actions– Licenses– Constraints and

Conditions– …

– Harmonized with CIDOC CRM and FRBRoo

Core DRO entitiesCore DRO entities

• Goal – Demonstrate that the system withstands changes in Law

• Scenario:– An amendment to a Copyright Law clarifies who can be

considered a performer, hence eligible to related rights

• Current IPR Law No. 92–597 of July 1, 1992, Art. 212-1 says:“… persons who act, sing, deliver, declaim, play in or otherwise perform literary or artistic works, variety, circus or puppet acts.”

• A hypothetical amendment could extend the definition of performers

including also people who project and interpret acousmatic sound files

We have more rightholders

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Scenario: Change in Copyright Law

Scenario 2

Update of PDI (Provenance)• Update Intellectual Property Rights after a Change in Law

DRM DRM preservation preservation expertexpert CASPAR Web DesktopCASPAR Web Desktop

POMPOM

FINDFIND

DRMDRM

PACKPACK

<use><use>

PDSPDS

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Change in Law (2)Differencies between Legal Frameworks

Description:

• European Parliament voted in April 2009 for the extension of sound performers’ rights

– From 50 to 70 years post mortem

• EU states have two years time to transpose the EU directive into national law– Hypothesis: At time X, France has implemented the law, but the

Czech Republic has not yet

Goal:– The rights on the various works are interpreted correctly tacking

into consideration the discrepancies in the different countries introduced by the change in Law

DRM Validation

• Checked suitability of the Digital Rights Ontology to represent rights

– Against real examples from INA (FR) and CIANT (CZ)• Intellectual Property Rights properly validated

• Licensed permissions NOT validated

– Demonstrated the interoperability of the Rights Ontology with other standard or well-known ontologies

• CIDOC CRM and FRBRoo

– Obtained mainly positive reviewers’ feedback on paper accepted at ECDL 2009

• About Digital Rights Ontology and its use to describe and preserve rights

• Tested capability of a CASPAR archive to handle changes of rights– By withstanding changes in Law, considering multiple legal frameworks

• Contributed to the State of the Art in Digital Preservation– Accepted the proposal to have a new PDI section in OAIS : Access Rights

Further Information

• CASPAR Developers Web Site: http://developers.casparpreserves.eu:8080/

• DRM Open Source Code on SourceForge.net: http://sourceforge.net/projects/digitalpreserve/

• Digital Rights Ontology resources: http://www.casparpreserves.eu/publications/ontologies/RightsOntology

• CASPAR Prototype GUI:http://developers.casparpreserves.eu:8080/CasparGui/

• Cyclops Tool:http://www.utc.fr/caspar/wiki/pmwiki.php

• Contact persons:

m.valentini@metaware.it and c.prandoni@metaware.it

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