A web ontology for copyright contract management
Digitization and the Internet pose new opportunities and threats for content markets that cannot be adequately handled by traditional digital rights management. Lack of interoperability, ignorance of user rights, and implementation costs are the main problems. A Semantic Web ontology that conceptualizes the copyright domain is utilized to establish a common interoperability ground and means that incorporate user rights. The ontology provides building blocks for flexible machine-understandable copyright contracts that can readily be implemented because of the easy reusability of Semantic Web tools.
ontology copyright contract digital rights management semantic web