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posted by CoolHand on Sunday August 02 2015, @08:44AM   Printer-friendly
from the better-than-oil-pipeline dept.

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.

 
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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by janrinok on Sunday August 02 2015, @05:53PM

    by janrinok (52) Subscriber Badge on Sunday August 02 2015, @05:53PM (#217048) Journal

    Unenforceable laws are bad laws

    So any attempt to correct them so that they become enforceable for the little people is bad?

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  • (Score: 2) by shortscreen on Sunday August 02 2015, @06:07PM

    by shortscreen (2252) on Sunday August 02 2015, @06:07PM (#217053) Journal

    Yes, DRM is bad.

    • (Score: 2) by janrinok on Sunday August 02 2015, @06:26PM

      by janrinok (52) Subscriber Badge on Sunday August 02 2015, @06:26PM (#217057) Journal

      You can give away your things, but you're not giving away mine. I will remain in control of my images, my software etc.

    • (Score: 2) by janrinok on Sunday August 02 2015, @06:30PM

      by janrinok (52) Subscriber Badge on Sunday August 02 2015, @06:30PM (#217059) Journal

      I assume that your objection is the the DMCA? You must remember that it is a US law - it has no relevance to anyone else whatsoever. I am not in the USA. The article is about the situation in the UK, also a country for whom the DMCA is worthless. And rather than go down the route that the USA has chosen, this is an attempt to make sure that everyone gets treated fairly - not just the big players.