1. Rights Expression Language
Working Group
Stuart Myles
11th June 2012

2. RightsML
Publishers need to express rights on the uses of content
Often need to enforce rights on behalf of 3rd parties
Clients need to know permissions and restrictions
Rights are a key criteria for selecting content
RightsML is an IPTC standard, based on ODRL
http://dev.iptc.org/RightsML
http://www.w3.org/community/odrl
Express machine readable permissions, restrictions and duties
Derived from media industry requirements
Mainly from AP, NLA, Getty, WSJ, Newsright
Can be embedded within content (e.g. G2, ATOM) or stand alone
Designed for automatic evaluation

3. Traditional Publishing
A feed per publication
A tuned
Licensed
content
for one
set
outlet
Editors
Often by review
media notes
type

4. One Publishing House
With many publications
Newspapers,
Content still
magazines,
licensed per
broadcast
outlet
channels
Websites
and apps for
Content
desktop,
duplication
smartphone,
tablet
Enshrines
legacy
relationships

5. Most Publishing House
Take Content from Multiple Providers
Lots of
complexity
and waste for
publishers and
providers.
Harder for
publishers to
respond to
new
opportunities

6. RightsML Enables Automated
Publishing That Respects Rights
Automatically
Content still route content
licensed per
outlet
Less editorial
intervention to
check
No content restrictions
duplication
Apply New uses for
restrictions content without
per content a duplicate
item feed

7. Not Just Feeds:
APIs
Content still
licensed per
outlet
One API
key rather
than one
per outlet
Apply
restrictions
per content
item

8. ODRL v2
The Core ODRL model supports permissions, restrictions and duties
http://www.w3.org/community/odrl/two/model/
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9. RightsML 1.0 Actions
• aggregate • index
• annotate • inform
• attribute • nextPolicy
• delete • obtainConsent
• derive / modify • pay
• display / present • play / present
• export / transform • print
• extract • share
• give • translate
• include
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10. RightsML 1.0 Example
http://dev.iptc.org/RightsML-10-Example-Redistributing-Photos
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11. At the Last Meeting We Launched the
RightsML “Experimental Phase”
http://dev.iptc.org/RightsML

12. RightsML Experimental Phase
1. Publishers try RightsML
2. Give IPTC feedback
3. IPTC adjusts RightsML
Adequate vocabularies?
Rights, Restrictions, Duties
Can partners express and
process the rights they need?
How can IPTC make RightsML
better?
http://dev.iptc.org/RightsML

13. RightsML Experimental Phase
• Main participants in RightsML experimental phase
– AP, AFP, DPA, Getty, Thomson Reuters
– No one from outside IPTC, so far
• Documentation
– Filled out http://dev.iptc.org/RightsML
– Updated and published RightsML 1.0 Draft
• The initial feedback from the experimental phase
– It is difficult to know where to begin with RightsML
– There is a limit to how much time anyone can spend
• Requests for detailed examples
– Great idea!
– There is a limit to how much time anyone can spend
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14. Emerging RightsML Patterns
• Original distribution style: NewsML-G2
– Embed or link to RightsML in NewsML-G2
– Also embed or link in ATOM
– Also as a standalone file
• A couple of additional distribution patterns have emerged
• RightsML in image binaries
– Express RightsML in XMP
– But we lack RDF expertise
– And what about overlap with PLUS?
• RightsML in rNews
– Is the usageTerms link sufficient?
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15. Date and Place of Next Meeting
Moscow 22 - 24 October, 2012
Thank you and Goodbye!
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