Cognitive Interfaces for Legal Expressions Description - Application to Copyrighted Works Online Sharing and Transactions
Mélanie Dulong de Rosnay · 2003
Abstract. Legal and technical means regulate the digital dissemination of creative works. Technological protection measures and rights management information imple-menting copyright licenses or contracts are based on Rights Expression Languages, i.e. machine-readable ontologies that link copyright concepts and terms to events oc-curring on digital networks. While developing such devices, specific attention shall be dedicated users ’ expectations in terms of problem description and legal situations expression. In order to be interoperable and fair, Digital Rights Management systems need a common vocabulary describing legal use cases and supporting opposing in-terests, as well as architectural conditions enabling to describe contexts and express questions, toward a dialog between users. After a presentation of the domain legal framework and an evaluation of current standardization initiatives, we will apply the concept of cognitive interface to the conception of copyright regulation applications. 1