The registration of content has been one of the DMP efforts for quite some time (see AD#5). Recently the twentieth General Assembly (GA20) appointed the National Information Agency of the Republic of Korea as the DMP Content Registration Authority.

On 12th December Joe Benso from RegisteredCommons has been invited by Creative Commons to participate in it’s Second Technology Summit. In this event a standardization initiative for copyright registry interoperability called therefore OSCRI (Open Standards for Copyright Registry Interoperability) will be promoted. To me their Declaration of Intent looks good, although they are reinventing the wheel. In DMP we had these discussions long time ago.

Joe Benso’s presentation will contain some slides which I prepared to explain the DMP approach. I hope that this presentation will help, although I have doubts, because I know that some Creative Commons people are sceptical about DMP. I suppose that they just think that DMP is not important for their strategy of creating their own web-based eco-system for managing rights. CC are standardizing their Rights Expression Language in W3C while DMP uses ISO/MPEG as a standards body.

Neither DMP nor CC will give up their standards, so the market will decide which of the competing standards will be adopted. Still, for interoperability’s sake, the registration of content (a basic Function in the context of the DMP Value-Chain) should be based on common protocols.