Protecting Copyright Through Semantic Technology

Abstract

As regulatory actions against copyright infringement have become to a large degree ineffective in the global context of Internet, new solutions balancing the interests of copyright owners, users and intermediaries were required. Semantic technology applied to Copyright may be considered an alternative to DRM or TPM systems, as metadata can be associated with a work, its title, author or right holder and intellectual property rights involved, so combining query languages and applications, the use or diffusion of those contents over the Internet can be controlled (authorizing or denying them) in what we named “Semantic Copyright”.