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[FYI] (Fwd) E-book rights, or Brave New WIPO
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- Subject: [FYI] (Fwd) E-book rights, or Brave New WIPO
- From: "Axel H Horns" <horns@t-online.de>
- Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 23:35:50 +0100
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From: Seth Finkelstein <sethf@MIT.EDU>
Subject: E-book rights, or Brave New WIPO
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I've been skmming through the specs at http://www.ebxwg.com/
It's like someone at the Cato Institute went absolutely wild. Amazing
stuff. Some choice excerpts:
Electronic books may be able to avoid the fine print and warnings by
making automatic what you can and cannot do with a copyrighted work.
...
* CopyCount - Number of copies of the content object the holder of the
voucher is allowed to view/lend/give/sell.
* Rights - Various rights that the holder of the voucher has:
* Lendable - Whether the holder can lend the voucher.
* Givable - Whether the holder can give the voucher to another entity.
* Sellable - Whether the holder can sell the voucher to another
entity.
* LendingTimeout - Amount of time the holder is allowed to borrow the
voucher.
* PersonalUseCopies - Maximum number of personal use copies per
PersonalUseTime.
* PersonalUseTime - Day, Week, Month, Year.
* PersonalUseCopySize - Paragraph, page, chapter, whole.
...
3.1.5 Rights - Basic rights element The basic rights define whether
the owner has the right to give, lend, and/or sell copies of the
voucher. There are no attributes currently defined for the Rights
start-tag.
The values in the content of the Rights element are separated by
commas. The allowable values for the content of the Rights element
are:
* Lendable - The e-book can be lent to another consumer or library.
* Givable - The e-book can be given to another consumer or library.
* Sellable - The e-book can be sold to another consumer, distributor,
or bookseller. For example:
<Rights> Lendable, Givable, Sellable </Rights>
...
3.1.7 PersonalUse - Personal use element If this element is missing,
no personal use rights are allowed. The PersonalUse element is a
container element for the actual personal use rights elements. The
personal use rights specify how often and what quantity of
information can be copied (or printed) from the e-book. The
personal use rights elements are:
* Interval - The interval during which personal use copies and/or
printouts are tracked.
The choices are: Day, Week, Month, Year.
* NumberAllowed - The number of personal use copies and/or printouts
that can be madeduring Interval.
* CopyUnit - A value indicating what portions of the work can be
copied and/or printed.
The choices are: Paragraph, Page, Chapter, EntireWork.
...
EBX also designed to provide "electronic rights management
information" as defined in the World Intellectual Property
Organization Copyright Treaty [WIPO96].
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