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ACAP and AP: a common and collaborative approach to managing copyright online
It has been reported that the Associated Press is to create a news registry that will tag, protect, and make online news content easier to use.
In the AP news release, Dean Singleton, chairman of the AP board of directors says: “The AP news registry will allow our industry to protect its content online, and will assure that we can continue to provide original, independent and authoritative journalism at a time when the world needs it more than ever.”
This is entirely in line with the objectives of ACAP which
has, of course, been driven from the outset by the news sector but has been working for the good of all content providers who wish to put their content online.
Both ACAP and the AP News Registry have functionality to express permission semantics for individual pieces of news content online. AP and ACAP are committed to a standards-driven agenda, and to ensuring that the News Registry and ACAP work effectively together.
“AP hosted the launch event for ACAP and has been a supporter of ACAP since its inception”, said Sri Kasi, General Counsel of AP. “ACAP was conceived as a solution for a part of the jigsaw puzzle of managing rights online”, he added, “AP’s news registry addresses other parts of that jigsaw and working with ACAP we will create a suite of tools which will help content owners manage their rights more effectively”.
ACAP’s mission is the standardisation of permission semantics – to ensure that permission expressions can be interpreted consistently in all machine-to-machine transactions; ACAP’s initial implementation is focused on search permissions and ACAP is working on other use cases which expand the scope of ACAP’s capabilities. ACAP’s interest is in enabling the widest possible interoperability, using the most appropriate technology, so that content owners can implement the policies of their choice.
AP’s permissions requirements which go beyond the existing ACAP semantics will form the basis of new ACAP use cases and we are working together on coordinating this within our two complementary projects.
AP news release: www.ap.org/pages/about/pressreleases/pr_072309a.html
Posted: 03/08/2009 10:45:43 by
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