[Geowanking] Re: GeoDRM

[Raj Singh]

Yes. Thanks Chris. That's exactly what I wanted to say. And if  
geodata becomes more open, I hope our GeoDRM framework will support a  
seamless transition.
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Raj

On Oct 16, 2006, at 12:26 PM, Christopher Schmidt wrote:

> On Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 05:59:59PM +0200, Lars Aronsson wrote:
>> Josh at oklieb wrote:
>>
>>> One of the (few) benefits of having used the term GeoDRM for the
>>> present geo-rights work is that it does flush out people who are
>>> mainly looking for a demon to hunt and use abusive language
>>> rather than actually talking and thinking about how intellectual
>>> property rights work for all Web users.
>>
>> That's not the case in geodata.  What we have is a bunch of
>> European national government agencies that for centuries gathered
>> geodata, paid for by the tax payers, and now they are selling it
>> by the minute as if they were a private entity that owned it.
>> While in fact we, the people, own them.
>
> And *no* level of rights management, technical or otherwise, is  
> going to
> be the primary factor in changing that. The problem is, at its  
> heart, a
> social one, and a naming convention, or even social and technical
> decisions made by OGC, will not change the fact that there is a large
> social block against sane treatment of geographic data collected by
> European National Mapping Agencies. Blaming the OGC for that is
> ridiculous.