IPTC's Rights Roadmap - embedding rights in photo binaries, open source software, creator identifiers and packages of rights. Plus the progress of W3C's ODRL POE working group

1. Rights Expression Working Group
Stuart Myles * Associated Press * 13th June 2016
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http://dev.iptc.org/RightsML
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2. RightsML
Publishers need to express rights on the uses of content
Often need to enforce rights on behalf of 3rd parties
Clients need to know permissions and restrictions
Rights are a key criteria for selecting content
RightsML is an IPTC standard, based on ODRL
http://dev.iptc.org/RightsML
http://www.w3.org/community/odrl
Express machine readable permissions, restrictions and duties
Derived from media industry requirements
Including AP, TR, NLA, Getty, WSJ, Newsright
Implemented by AP in XML and JSON
http://www.slideshare.net/smyles/iptcap-rights-api201506stuartmyles
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3. IPTC Rights Roadmap
• Photo and Video binaries
– Latest IPTC Photo Metadata update allows for rights policies
– Implementation guide for embedding policy IDs in XMP
• Rights evaluation engines
– Some open source software exists for representing ODRL
– Creating an open source evaluation engine
• Identifiers
– For content items, rights holders, other involved parties
– Which will work across organizational boundaries
• Rights statements
– Reusable packages of rights
– Human readable descriptions and additional metadata

4. Rights in Binaries
• Rights metadata for photo and video
– An id linking to a registry with rights metadata
– Embedding rights metadata directly in binaries
• IPTC updated photo metadata to support both
– Embedded metadata has an indication of the encoding scheme
• IPTC recommendation is ODRL in JSON
– Easy to embed in XMP - unlike RDF or XML (we tried)
• All the technical pieces are there
– Now we plan to write the guidelines for providers and clients
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5. Rights Evaluation Engine
• Reference implementation of an evaluation engine
– http://dev.iptc.org/RightsML-Implementation-Guide
– http://dev.iptc.org/RIghtsML-Processing-Model
• Proposal to build JSON API built on top of licensed
– https://github.com/iptc/rightsml-dev/tree/master/licensed
– http://www.slideshare.net/smyles/licensed-the-open-source-
rightsml-engine
• Progress has been slow
– Any volunteers to help? Get in touch… 
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6. Identifiers
• Standardization for interoperability
• Decentralization for agility
• ODRL’s Common Vocabulary
– Actions, Constraints, Party Roles
• What schemes should IPTC create or recommend?
– Assets
– Content creators
– Rights holders
– Client organizations (parts of organizations)
– Geography – beyond ISO 3166-1 and 3166-2
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7. Beyond Policies:
Rights Statements
• RightsML is aimed precisely at describing policies
– Machine readable permissions, restrictions and duties
• But what about everything else, such as …
– Human readable descriptions
– Re-usable packages of rights
– Links between sets of rights
• rightsstatements.org Europeana, DPLA
– For licensing and reuse of cultural objects
– Directly incorporates ODRL ontology
• Should IPTC create and/or host news rights statements?
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8. W3C POE
• W3C Permissions and Obligations Expression WG
– https://www.w3.org/2016/poe/wiki/Main_Page
– https://www.w3.org/2016/poe/charter
• ODRL being “only” a CG has been a barrier for some
– Stated intent is to formalize ODRL 2.1 specs
– Due date is December 2017
– ODRL Community Group lives on
• Participating organizations must be W3C members
– https://www.w3.org/2000/09/dbwg/details?group=87755&public=
1
– Invited experts via Copyright Hub
• Michael Steidl
• Stuart Myles
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9. W3C POE Activities
• Current focus – gather use cases, derive requirements
– https://www.w3.org/2016/poe/wiki/Use_Cases
– https://www.w3.org/2016/poe/wiki/Use_Cases#POE.UC.07_New
s_Permissions_and_Restrictions
– https://www.w3.org/2016/poe/wiki/Requirements
• Discussions
– ODRL? POE? Desire to clearly distance this effort from DRM
– Processing model
– Profile definition, conformance, requesting
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10. Date and Place of Next Meeting
Berlin, Germany 24 – 26 October 2016
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Tack och adjö!
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