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ICADS Topic: Digital Rights Management


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Theme: Accessing digital collections:

This page provides links to information about initiatives and innovative projects relating to Digital Rights Management at the national libraries contributing to ICADS (IFLA-CDNL Alliance for Digital Strategies). For more general information on the topic follow the PADI Topic links below.

What's in scope?

  • Development of technical solutions for machine interpretable licenses
  • Policy on approaches to increased complexity, variability and different levels of granularity of access to digital content
  • Enforcement of digital rights and appropriate control of publicly available technology
  • Technical solutions to implementation and enforcement problems
  • Digital rights metadata schema application.

For additional resources

see PADI Topics Intellectual Property Rights Management and Copyright.

ICADS libraries contributing to the topic:

British Library | Deutsche Nationalbibliothek | Library of Congress | National Library of Australia

British Library

Intellectual Property: the British Library's Perspective
This webpage covers the British Library's perspective on intellectual property in the digital age. There are links to numerous documents that help to show how the British Library is responding to the complexities of dealing with intellectual property and digital material. Links to relevant external organisations are also provided.
Contact: Roderic Parker
http://www.bl.uk/ip/
(Contributor: British Library )

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Deutsche Nationalbibliothek

ARROW - Accessible registries of rights information and orphan works towards Europeana
With its more than nine million published titles, the 20th century accounts for roughly 80% of all printed works published in the German-speaking countries. In order to safeguard access to this information in the future, it is crucial to start mass digitization of content as soon as possible. However, most of the 20th century works are subject to copyright, making it necessary to obtain licenses from the rights holders. The aim of the ARROW project is to help identify copyright holders of out-of-print works, to create European registers of orphan works and also to develop models for integrated access to charged and free digital content. Effort is being made to ensure that the project results are interoperable with the future European digital library "Europeana". Besides helping out on the technical work packages of ARROW, each of the 16 partner institutions involved will contribute digital content to the project. The German National Library will scrutinize the various legal issues and the processes involved in establishing the rights for each individual title on the basis of a selection of copyright-protected books (Archiv der schönsten deutschen Bücher - Archive of the best designed German books). This will make it clearer which percentage of orphan works can be assumed to exist amongst the German 20th century book stocks. The experience from this clarification of rights will provide the basis for the future strategy in dealing with out-of-print and orphan works.

The German National Library and a number of other European national libraries plus representatives of usage rights organizations and various European publishers' associations are the project partners.

Contact: Thomas Jaeger
http://www.d-nb.de/eng/wir/projekte/arrow.htm
(Contributor: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek )

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Library of Congress

PREMIS Rights Project
Many efforts are concerned with metadata related to intellectual property rights and permissions, from rights expression languages to the framework. However, only a small body of work addresses rights and permissions specifically related to digital preservation. After the publication of the first edition of the PREMIS Data Dictionary, the Library of Congress in its capacity as PREMIS Maintenance Agency commissioned a study, “Rights in the PREMIS Data Model”. This paper discussed copyright, license, and statute as three bases for establishing intellectual property rights, and recommended an expansion of the rights information in the PREMIS Data Dictionary, which was subsequently done. The PREMIS Rights Statement is intended to allow a preservation repository to determine whether it has the right to perform a certain action in an automated fashion, with some documentation of the basis for the assertion.
Contact: Rebecca Guenther
http://www.loc.gov/standards/premis/Rights-in-the-PREMIS-Data-Model.pd
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(Contributor: Library of Congress )
Rights Expression Languages
Rights expression languages (RELs) are emerging in the information community that support different aspects of the digital access environment -- licensing, payments, web material, use control, access, etc. They go to different depths in the data they specify and they take different approaches vis-à-vis machine manipulation. These variations make it difficult to select the appropriate one for a particular situation or a cooperative venture. This report was commissioned to clarify the similarities and differences of various emerging RELs in order to assist users in making choices and to encourage cooperation among the developers of the languages where feasible. It shows several important ways to analyze a language, such as its purpose or its machine-actionability or its data element content, that will assist the community in making decisions. It treats, primarily, four leading REL initiatives: ODRL; MPEG-21, Part 5; METS Rights; Creative Commons.
Contact: Sally McCallum
http://www.loc.gov/standards/relreport.pdf
(Contributor: Library of Congress )

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National Library of Australia

Rights Management System Project
The National Library of Australia (NLA) is developing a Rights Management System (RMS) to assist staff in managing copyright and access information for the digital and physical collections. While the system is being developed primarily for use by staff at this stage, the Library recognised that some aspects could be used to inform users about the use of the collections, and facilitate more efficient document access, ordering and delivery. Until mid July 2009, a Copyright Status Calculator is being trialled in the NLA catalogue. The calculator uses a set of rules based on Australian copyright law and metadata from the catalogue record, to determine whether a work is in copyright.

Paper: ‘Development of a Rights Management System for the National Library of Australia's Collections’ by S. Henderson & M. Walker, given at VALA 2008, 5-7 February 2008, Melbourne.

Contact: Ingrid Finnane
https://code.nla.gov.au/redmine/projects/show/rms-go
(Contributor: National Library of Australia )

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Related Topics: ICADS Topic: Digital Archiving | ICADS Topic: Digital Ingest & Storage | ICADS Topic: Digital Preservation | ICADS Topic: Digital Resource Discovery | ICADS Topic: Digitisation | ICADS Topic: Web Archiving

Broader Topic: ICADS (IFLA-CDNL Alliance for Digital Strategies)

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