“Unlocking the Future: How AI Rights Could Rewrite the Rules of Humanity According to Visionary Babis Marmanis”
The EU was certainly capable of specifying language or required technology to use for rights reservation. Before getting into the “why,” what technologies would have been available in 2019 if the EU wanted to specify a technology, and what technologies are available today?
There are many rights expression languages that have existed since the early 2000s, if not earlier! METSRights, Open Digital Rights Language (ODRL), and MPEG-21 are examples. In particular, MPEG REL (“REL” meaning “Rights Expression Language”), as defined by ISO/IEC 21000-5, provides flexible, interoperable mechanisms to support transparent and augmented use of digital resources throughout the value chain in a way that protects the digital resource and honors the rights, conditions, and fees specified for it. Although there are differences between these RELs, it is not hard to create extensions or crosswalks.
