Date:29 January 2007(Monday)
Time:10:00am To 12:30pm
Venue:Training Room 1-3, Cyberport 3 L3 Core F, 100 Cyberport Road, Hong Kong.
"Manage rights by software - that is open source" by Leonardo Chiariglione, Ph. D.
organized by Hong Kong Cyberport (iResource Centre)
Abstract: Digital technologies provide new means to create, distribute and consume products of the mind that fundamentally change the way people assigns value to them. But the business dimension of the products of mind is only one as they are also the basic elements that make human societies. Since a decade the world has been struggling to make the conflicting requirements meet, without success. This is the cause of the digital media stalemate identified 3 years ago by the Digital Media Manifesto.
The speech intends to contribute to solving this problem by elaborating on a few basic points:
1. A product of a mind is the (intellectual) property of that mind, but the associated rights are determined by society.
2. Creators have the right to control how their intellectual property is distributed and consumers have the right to access it using the device of his choice.
3. Everybody has the right to know how technology handles the intellectual property they deal with, i.e. open specifications and Open Source Software implementation.
The speech will then show how Open Source Interoperable Digital Rights Management (DRM) can give back to rights holders and consumers alike their original rights and intermediaries the opportunity to exploit digital technologies to the best to provide what they so far have been unable to do. It will also illustrate how Chillout, the OSS implementation of the Digital Media Project specification (http://chillout.dmpf.org/) already provides a practical solution to resolve the digital media stalemate.
