http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/07/31/copyright_hub_launch/
The web has grown up without letting people own and control their own stuff, but a British-backed initiative might change all that, offering a glimpse of how the internet can work in the future. Their work will all be open sourced early next year.
Britain's much-anticipated Copyright Hub was given ministerial blessing when it finally opened its kimono today, boasting a pipeline of over 90 projects covering commercial and free uses.
A handy new site – Copyright done right – has also been launched, explaining what it offers. The initiative has sparked global interest.
Today, it turns out that most people actually do want what they’re missing from today’s internet: property rights (or property-ish rights) for the digital stuff they post to the interwebs. But many have found that copyright just doesn’t work for them. The Hub aims to build rights-aware layers on top of the internet, so that people can track how what they make public is used, much as DNS added ease of use to naming protocols and VPNs added privacy standards to the basic bare-bones internet.
(Score: 2) by janrinok on Sunday August 02 2015, @09:07AM
The second link explains the aim better than the main linked story. However, it is essentially to provide the individual the rights and ability to control how others can use material that they have produced. The Creative Commons gives a way of doing this, but this project is intended to make it much easier for people to find who 'owns' a specific item and for them to obtain permission to use it. This should also reduce the number of times that others use copyright data without permission then claim the defence that 'we did not know who owned it to ask for permission...' Whether it actually achieves this second aim is yet to be seen.