Digital Rights Management

Full Title or Meme

The control of access to content on public networks, like the internet.

Context

• Information wants to be free!
• Unless, of course, it might embarrass me or interfere with my ability to earn a living.

Solutions

• Open Digital Rights Language (ODRL) Version 1.1 (2002-09-19)

  The Open Digital Rights Language (ODRL) is a proposed language for the Digital Rights Management (DRM) community for the standardisation of expressing rights information over content. The ODRL is intended to provide flexible and interoperable mechanisms to support transparent and innovative use of digital resources in publishing, distributing and consuming of electronic publications, digital images, audio and movies, learning objects, computer software and other creations in digital form. The ODRL has no license requirements and is available in the spirit of "open source" software.