Publisher Rights

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The publisher/owner of a content on the internet has some rights that should be honored

  • We shouldn't infringe legitimus copyright
  • We shouldn't slander on people (particularly vulnerable people)
  • (Intent) There might be advocates for extreme Freedom of Speech, and for extreme vigilance of intelectual rights and protection. My intent is to propose some practical rules that keep a balance, and keep annotation server developers and hosts free of unwanted trouble.

Intelectual Rights

  • (rule) If legitimus owner leaves a resource on the internet, open to be indexed, then it can be freely referenced and commented by anyone
  • (rule) resource host might interact with the reference and annotation server
    • (right) receive notifications of annotations being made
    • (right) Ask removal of contents that belong to her (e.g. a verbatim copy of some text non intended to be public)
    • (right) Resource owner may impose some restrictions over the annotations
      • (example) A movie productor who lists her movies, won't be pleased if someone annotates the magnet link to download it for free
      • (example) A publisher for safe for kids contents, won't be happy if someone makes annotations with explicit content
      • (therefore) Annotations might have to be moderated, either by the owner, or by trusted users
        • (however) The owner might be expected to pay for the extra expenses (if she doesn't like it, she might as well disallow annotations)
        • (however) The owner must play by her own rules, or else she will be marked
    • (right) A resource owner might want to serve the annotations/references by herself
    • (example) A blog/news owner who makes her earning out of adverticements, or will make the service more appealing integrated with her site
      • (however) She must comply to QoS and fairplay rules, or else she will be marked
  • (tech issue) How to notice if a resource is public/indexed, and know how to contact the host/owner
    • (X)HTML documents might have headers (Dublin Core like) for this.
    • robots.txt file indicates resources not to be indexed
    • HTML attribute a#norel indicates resources a indexer should not follow

Personal Image Rights

  • (aka) Privacy, Honour and Personal Image Rights
  • (rule) Only a user who can be made liable for possible wrongdoing might annotate on people
  • (rule) For protected people (kids, disabled) no-one might browse or annotate
    • (explain) non even themselves as they might be suplanted
    • (explain) if some fair use is needed, it's up for their organization to set their own server and handle it
    • (sofistication) protections might be tailor-made (specific annotations for specific groups)

Resource owner profiles

Extreme owner profiles

Just for the sake of illustration, what kind of people can be mad at us for handling a server in a lukewarm way

  • The image zealots: Will harrash and sue you for people complaining about them (Wanna give these some publicity?)
  • The copyright zealots: Most major Studios for movies, series, music, books, etc frown upon their works being distributed on direct download and P2P networks without their consent.
  • The copyleft zealots. You know Information must be free, people talking nasty about you. If you know about something that is more fairplay and is feasible please tell. Consider it a success if these deploy publisher-rights-free servers
  • The activist zealots: They don't like that you don't let them abuse (e.g. political hate speech) on defenceless site owners. Funny thing they don't like even mild critic on themselves either.

Balanzed owner profiles

  • Most blog owners encourage comments, but won't be happy if these are dispersed among a cloud of annotations
  • Adverticement oriented owners, won't be happy if their hit count go down
  • Balanced public figures. Surely won't like people talking nasty about them. But shooting the messenger (let alone the bartender) at daylight, or giving publicity to some obscure note are not either good for the image.