Comments on: Data Portability – the need for DRM http://derivadow.com/2008/01/08/data-portability-the-need-for-drm/ ...is a blog by Tom Scott a place where I ramble about my thoughts and observations on the open web, linked data, URIs and generally how technology and design can create great things for people to use. Mon, 06 Feb 2012 21:20:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Foo Camping « Derivadow.com http://derivadow.com/2008/01/08/data-portability-the-need-for-drm/#comment-1935 Tue, 12 Feb 2008 17:29:14 +0000 http://derivadow.com/2008/01/08/data-portability-the-need-for-drm/#comment-1935 [...] It was, however, clear that the really big issues are social not technological: user expectations, data ownership and portability. Although a key piece of the technology puzzle in all this is the establishment of XFN and FOAF which are going to play an ever increasingly important role in glueing different social networks together. And with the launch of Google’s Social Graph API (released under a Creative Commons license by the way) data portability is going to really explode; but with it expect more “Scoblegate” like incidents. [...]

]]> By: Tom Scott http://derivadow.com/2008/01/08/data-portability-the-need-for-drm/#comment-1862 Sat, 19 Jan 2008 12:09:02 +0000 http://derivadow.com/2008/01/08/data-portability-the-need-for-drm/#comment-1862 Thanks – I think that with the coming era of data portability we will need to do something along these lines.

]]> By: George http://derivadow.com/2008/01/08/data-portability-the-need-for-drm/#comment-1839 Tue, 08 Jan 2008 13:13:09 +0000 http://derivadow.com/2008/01/08/data-portability-the-need-for-drm/#comment-1839 Thanks for such a thought provoking article. I think you are absolutely right that we need an integrated approach across social networking sites.

Creative Commons seems to have momentum and I wonder if they can offer licenses for personal data. I imagine that rel=license might work well here.

All this is reliant on social networking sites admitting that they don’t own the data though and I suspect that is as big a challenge as the technical side.

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