Intellectual Property (IP) Operations Systems (IPOS-DS) Implementation
IPOS-DS
has been conceived as a result of an intense and on-going analysis of
the consequences of making modern web based technology available to
most any individual in the context of the vast variety and quantity of
User Created Content. As in the case of the creation of the
printing press in its day, where unprecedented numbers of individuals
obtained their own copies of literature, so too today’s technology
provides unprecedented numbers of individuals with their own publishing
platforms! Creation and worldwide distribution of content is now the
domain of any individual.
If one considers that just the
top 1% of the most talented people in the world represents 60 to 70
million individuals of whom most if not all can obtain access to the
digital network and if one considers the top 10% that number increases
to 600 to y 700 million, one begins to understand the power and
importance of IPOS-DS.
DSC is about management of
representations of value and IPOS-DS is about managing the most
intimate value an individual can own his own creations and
information. From the creation of great musical or literary
works, films, compelling videos, documentaries, news event reports to
family albums, personal correspondence, legal documents etc, all have
value that needs to be managed by their proprietors according to their
desires and more importantly their rights. Management of your own
value in an IPOS-DS network is much more than just protecting against
unauthorised use, it is about:
- Guaranteeing attribution when you want to
- Distributing content for free or for commercial return
- Interacting
and licensing with specialised adaptors, performers, publishers,
editors and producers and end users worldwide
- Having
direct contact with your public not only through the web but through
copies of representations of your content.
- Getting world-wide statistics on how your content is being used and by whom
- Setting up your personal world wide Value Network for your content
- Allowing
creators and thinkers with specialised interest to find one another and
collaborate constructively in a open yet predictable manner
IPOS-DS Objectives
IPOS-DS
(Intellectual Property Operations System – Digital Shadow) is one
of the many possible applications of the NetPortedItems’
DigitalShadowCaster suite of development tools. Its objective is
to link digital representations of creations with other dependent
creations and objects such as original manuscripts, adaptations,
performances, editions etc.. collectively called Intellectual Property
Entities or simply IP Entities.
Representation of
IP Entities is achieved using the DCIs a format developed by the
Digital Media Project and based on MPEG-21 Digital Items. DCIs allow
you to document the creations you wish to communicate across the
network for others to use according to your terms and conditions.
The IP Entities you will be able to represent using IPOS-DS are the following IPOS-ORs (Object Representations):
- Work:
This is something you created on your own without using anyone else’s
material such as original texts, photos, songs, compositions, videos,
presentations even personal data
- Adaptation:
This is something you create that takes someone else’s Work and adapts
it to a new environment it wasn’t initially intended for such as a
musical arrangement of a piano composition for guitar.
- Work Manifestation:
This is your Work but in a physical form that can be digitised and
communicated to and used by others. This is your manuscript that
you might want to scan and send in .pdf format, a recording of you
telling your story, a text file anything that can be copied in either
digital or analogue media that is a Work of yours.
- Adaptation Manifestation: The same as a Work Manifestation except that it is of an Adaptation and not a Work.
- Manifestation Instance: This is your particular rendition or edition of a Work or Adaptation Manifestation. It
is an interpretation of a manuscript or edition of an original text. It
can be of your Manifestation but more often it is of other peoples’
that you have received either through IPOS-DS or directly from another
user.
- Instance Copy: A copy of an Instance
- Work Manifestation Copy: A copy of a Work Manifestation
- Adaptation Manifestation Copy: A copy of an Adaptation Manifestation
The relationship between these is illustrated in Fig. 1 below:
Fig. 1. Relationships between IPOS-ORs
The
arrows represent the dependencies of objects in child and parent
relationships of IPOS-ORs. As can be seen an Instance is the
child of either types of Manifestations (Work/Adaptation). To
achieve this IPOS-DS saves for you the links between IPOS_ORs except of
course in the case of a Work that has no parent.
In
order for you to perform operations over IPOS-ORs you need to assume a
particular role. The roles defined so far are the following:
- Creator: Author of Works
- Adaptor: Author of Adaptations
- Instantiator: Performer, editor
- Productor: Someone who makes copies and/or uses them in products for sale
The types of Roles you can assume and the types of IPOS-ORs you can create under those roles is shown in Table 1 below.
Role |
IPOS-ORs |
Creator |
Work |
Creator |
Work Manifestation |
Creator |
Work Manifestation Copy |
Adaptor |
Adaptation |
Adaptor |
Adaptation Manifestation |
Adaptor |
Adaptation Manifestation Copy |
Instantiator |
Instance |
Producer |
Instance Copy |
Table 1. Roles vs IPOS-ORs.
As
the table illustrates you need to assume the role of Instantiator in
order to represent an interpretation (Instance) of even your own Work.
The relationships between the IPOS-DS Roles and IPOS-ORs are according
to the DMP Rights Represent Data Ontology. Full list of IPOS-DS features
- Online User Registration
- User Autentication
- IPOS-OR Registration (Works, Adaptations, Manifestations, Instances, Copies using digital signaturas)
- Definition of potencial Rights over IPOS-ORs and conditions of use with the options to define:
- The number of times a right may be exercised
- Temporal use
- Territorial use
- Payment
for use - flat or for discrete use and determine % (0-100%) of Rights
to be transferred to child IPOS-ORs (note: transfer or rights relates
to share of payments)
- Automatic generation of licenses acquired by users and available from the set of a potential rights of an IPOS-OR obtained
- Linking of digital files to an IPOS-OR stored and encrypted by IPOS-DS
- Revoking of potential rights offered in any moment and replacement with a new set
- IPOS-OR searches based varying criteria
- IPOS-OR download
- Navigation through IPOS-OR hierarchy to ascertain all associated IPOS-ORs and lineage
- Solicitation of contact with IPOS-OR owners without making public a users contact information
- Obtention of licenses to authorise the use of IPOS-ORs and derivative IPOS-ORs regsitration
- Authorisation of IPOS-ORs registration based on the obtained licenses
- Automatic generation of reports detailing use made of one’s IPOS-ORs and related derivative IPOS-ORs
- Automatic calculation of payments required by one user from another
- Visualisation
of associated files through Desktop IPOS application. This application
first checks to see if the user has the required right before
obtaining the encrypted file and associated keys and opening the file
with the appropriate associated application.
IPOS-DS
v1.0 is the first DSC Value Network Representation for any creator to
communicate his Works and other creations with any user
anywhere.
Desktop IPOS is a
Java-based user application devised for rendering the resources
associated to some kind of IPOS-ORs, while ensuring the enforcement of
the rights and conditions established in the license acquired by the
user. Desktop IPOS downloads, decrypts and finally renders the resource
in the user’s default application. It is needed for all users that
attempt to access the resources associated to the IPOS-ORs.
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