Best way to automate rights listings for books?

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By David Rothman

David Marlin and Laura Dawson have respective thoughts on that. A registry could work for e-books and p-books alike, but given their virtual nature, digital publications could especially benefit.

Along the way, Marlin does not see ACAP as a solution despite the fondness of some newspaper owners for it. ACAP site is here. Hmm. will Google end up with this task—not just for the U.S. but the rest of the world?

Meanwhile here’s an excerpt from Marlin that Laura Dawson highlights:

ACAP has been designed to identify how third party “crawlers” can use content on a website.  Therefore, it has an entirely different set of use-cases than is required by a BRR standard.  For the BRR, we need to identify content which may or may not be published on a public website.  Because it will often not be so published, a standard for crawling web sites is not appropriate. 

That leaves open the question of whether we can use the same methodology for identifying usage rights.  Again, ACAP is not designed for this purpose.  It has a much coarser descriptor of rights than is required.  For example, it defines that translation is allowed, but it does not indicate in which markets or which translations.  It also does not appear to address non-textual usage (i.e. a dramatic reading of content to be broadcast online).

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