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More of what Jiscmail thinks is spam from John. P. ----original message--- Subject: Re: IPR Guide From: "John Casey" <[log in to unmask]> Date: Wed, 06 Oct 2004 10:20:17 +0100 To: <[log in to unmask]>, <[log in to unmask]> Hi Scott Thanks for the info - I will try and work this into the next version of the guide - one wee point this is a guide aimed at complete novices who will only (if ever) have a passing interest in DRELs etc. But what is interesting for my target readers is that this is more evidence of the kind of IPR culture that is emerging in the 1st world (advanced economies? - although advanced never seems the right word to me!) where we have a kind of intellectual asset stripping going on by the filing of speculative patents and buying up companies for their possible retrospective patent portfolios etc. In this context the mainstream educational community needs to engage more with the issue of IPR to defend it's 'space' - along the way I think we will have much to learn from the other sectors like the media and the open source movement. If you have some more info on this I would be very grateful - I am due to another version of the guide to explain the latest JORUM licences so that would be an opportunity to work it in. Cheers John >>>>>> Scott Wilson <[log in to unmask]> 05/10/2004 01:16:02 >>> Hi Phil, Not sure if this has been mentioned on the list yet, but its worth bearing in mind that ALL digital rights expression languages/markup/metadata are potentially patent-encumbered due to a number of US software patents awarded to ContentGuard (owned by MS and AOL-TW). ODRL, PRL, and the like are all affected (not just XrML), and until this issue is resolved any use of any DREL will potentially incur the threat of lawsuits over technology licensing. Unfortunately the JISC IPR guide doesn't mention this, which is a bit of an omission! If you require any further information, both Wilbert and I have been tracking this problem. - S