Political pressures to regulate different kinds of content vary within and between countries. The goal of recent legislative efforts is to establish some minimal norms which apply at the international level. We also identified needs for consumer protection. At the least, consumer business protection laws must migrate to the on-line world. We noticed that nearly all the discussion of terms and conditions, both in the workshop, and outside it, concerned protecting the property owner's rights, but that little attention had been paid to the symmetric problem of the user's right, for example, the right to privacy.
Librarians have a long tradition, for example, of protecting patron's circulation records.
We identified a corresponding need to protect the browsing, borrowing and purchasing records of users of digital libraries. Thus, information submitted by a web browser to a web server via an interactive method can be stored and used. Typical uses of this data are for customer tracking and user surveys. It is unclear how to enforce the protection of browsing rights, i.e. to ensure the user of the digital library has the same browsing privacy rights as in the traditional library, or to permit the purchaser of digital information in the digital library the right to negotiate. Imagine that terms and conditions become highly dynamic objects.