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the author “died for France”. This means that the publication year is not sufficient
to derive the rights, as it is necessary also to trace if an author died during active
service!
This kind of information is absolutely crucial to correctly identify all the existing
ownership rights, their duration and the jurisdiction under which they are valid.
10.6.2.4 Post-publication Events
This information concerns events that have an impact on ownership rights and
on permissions, but which cannot be considered as part of the creation history.
It includes:
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Death of a creator: the date of death influences the duration of the ownership
rights; the identities of the heirs are crucial if particular authorizations need to be
negotiated
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Release in Public Domain: the right holders might decide to give up all rights
even before the legal expiration date
•
Transfer of Rights: the right holders might transfer some or all of their exclusive
rights to someone else.
If this kind of information is preserved and kept updated, it should be possible to
exploit the IPR-protected material in the near and the far future.
10.6.2.5 Laws
Tracking laws is crucial for the correct preservation of rights: changes must
be immediately recognized, because they might strengthen or reduce the legal
restrictions for some materials.
Laws need not to be preserved themselves, but an archive should be able to rec-
ognize and to handle the changes. This is true not only for Intellectual Property
Rights, but also for Right to Privacy and Protection of Minors.
10.6.3 Rights Enforcement Technologies
Technological solutions like encryption, digital signatures, watermarking, finger-
printing and machine-understandable licenses could be applied to enforced access
rights. Thus, the right holders and content providers could ask the preservation insti-
tution to make the deposited material available only under some restrictions and to
enforce them with proper security measures.
Each OAIS archive is free in implementing rights enforcement in whatever way it
chooses. The only necessary restriction is to not introduce potential future barriers to
the access by altering the raw Content Data Object, as it is stored within the Archival
Information Package (AIP); alterations due to encryption and watermarking of the
