A technical framework for managing and accessing digital...
A technical framework for managing and accessing digital content across all types of media and content was unveiled Monday by the Brussels-based Linked Content Coalition (LCC). The move follows an October 2010 call by European Digital Agenda Commissioner Neelie Kroes…
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for “big ideas” for the digital agenda, the LCC said. The framework includes a rights reference model, and best practice principles for using content identifiers and communicating information about rights through supply chains, it said. It brings together for the first time licensing data models and languages for all kinds of material, it said. The technology will now be tested in a major project co-funded by the European Commission, said LCC Chairman Christoph Keese. The LCC will continue to work on multimedia rights identification so every digital creation can be identified, tracked and linked to its author, he said. This will tackle the problem of digital orphan works -- whose creators can’t be determined or located -- when authors upload new self-published content to the networks and video platforms, he said. In the future, declaring rights at the point of upload means authors will be recognized and have the chance to get paid, he said. The LCC framework doesn’t dictate business models, but supports an infrastructure on which the creative industries can develop their own, LCC said. It will spur automated management of digital content rights, it said. The LCC framework is available for peer review and is being tested in the EC rights data integration project starting in May, it said. Discussions are also underway for the LCC rights reference model to form the basis of the U.K. “copyright hub” recommended in the 2011 Hargreaves report on intellectual property and growth, it said.