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Digital
IP and Copyright Issues for
Education in Canada
(Draft #1)
Prepared
for the CANARIE-sponsored BELLE Project by:
Mike Wingham, Chief Technology Officer
Gary Euler, Vice President Operations
RightsMarket Inc.
Suite 500, 700 - 4 Avenue SW
Calgary, Alberta, T2P 3J4, CANADA
mwingham@rightsmarket.com
1.
Background
2.
Terms of Reference
3. Introduction
to IP & Copyright
4. Copyright
Legislation
5.
Management of Copyright
6. Digital Rights
Expression Languages
7. Recommendations and Conclusion
7. Recommendations and Conclusion
This report focuses on the suitability of the
DREL's available today for use in the Education
and eLearning space. The report has focused mainly
on the suitability of a DRM/DREL system to enable
the use of "publish for profit" and
"publish for glory" content in the education
space.
DREL's do nothing in and of themselves. They are
merely a specification of meta data that should
enable certain functions within a system.
A DRM/DREL should enable the users, in this case
educational institutions, to manage content published
from a variety of sources. The following should
all be enabled:
- Content usage tracking
- Management of fair use dealing
- Control of content licensing
- Enable content owners to get paid when it
is appropriate
Both
the XrML and the ODRL standards represent attempts
to develop standards which deliver these functions.
Widespread adoption of these standards or an intersection
set of these standards will enable content owners
to more rapidly share content among users including
educational institutions.
In general, we believe that neither of these two
models is likely to dominate this space in the short
term.
DRM solutions will continue to contain subsets of
these standards as meta data in their own repositories.
The key issue for Educational institutions going
forward will be to implement DRM solutions that
are extensible. This will ensure that the content
can be managed through the implemented DRM irrespective
of which standard the content holder uses to manage
their data.
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