Buzz - Odrl

• Rights Management and Digital Library Requirements

  Karen Coyle describes some aspects of rights expression languages favoured by the commercial content industries and how these may differ from the rights needs of digital libraries.

• The Intellectual Property Rights Workshop

  William J. Nixon and Jessie Hey co-report on the JISC IPR workshop held in London, May 2003.

• The RoMEO Project: Protecting Metadata in an Open Access Environment

  Elizabeth Gadd, Charles Oppenheim and Steve Probets describe how the RoMEO Project is seeking to safeguard freely available metadata disclosed and harvested under the OAI Protocol for Metadata Harvesting.

• Managing Digital Video Content

  Manjula Patel reviews the two-day workshop on current and emerging standards for managing digital video content held in Atlanta, Georgia, 15-16 August 2001.