[Icommons] Aboriginal archive's new DRM: Cultural Solution?

Fred Benenson fred.benenson at gmail.com
Tue Jan 29 17:04:37 EST 2008


On Jan 29, 2008 4:54 PM, Wendy Seltzer <wendy at seltzer.com> wrote:

> Fred Benenson wrote:
> > On the other hand, I don't think DRM is being used in the right way in
> this
> > article. The use of rights management here seems to have a lot more to
> do
> > with file permissions (I'm forgetting the right term of these) than
> > copyright, which is what DRM is traditionally used to refer to.
>
> I wonder whether you think it's being used right in my post, which that
> one seems to have drawn from.  (I don't call the archive "DRM," just
> digital restrictions):
> <
> http://wendy.seltzer.org/blog/archives/2008/01/11/mukurtu-contextual-archiving-digital-restrictions-done-right.html
> >
>

Yes -- I think you do a really fine job at articulating what the differences
are between this kind of DRM and the kind western entertainment industries
are so insistent on implementing.

More over, I agree that its a valuable lesson to learn about how to
articulate digital rights with code in the right way.


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