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Version 1.1 (Released 8 August 2002):
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The Open Digital Rights Language (ODRL) Initiative is an international effort aimed at developing and promoting an open standard for rights expressions. ODRL is intended to provide flexible and interoperable mechanisms to support transparent and innovative use of digital content in publishing, distributing and consuming of digital media across all sectors and communities.

The ODRL Initiative governance is managed by the ODRL International Advisory Board.

Upcoming Events

  • Virtual Goods 2010 - The 8th International Workshop for Technical, Economic and Legal Aspects of Business Models for Virtual Goods incorporating the 6th International ODRL Workshop
    • 30 September to 1 October 2010, Namur, Belgium
  • ODRL Working Group Meeting
    • 30 September 2010, Namur, Belgium

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[2010-04-05]RightsPro join the ODRL Supporters.

[2009-07-07]Call for participation in the new ODRL RDFa Task Force.

[2009-07-07]Call for Community-based Rights Vocabularies for the ODRL V2.0 Core Metadata.

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Open Source Projects

The ODRL Initiative is a supporter of open-source projects to provide open and equitable access to all stakeholders in the community:

  • Ruby-odrl - library for creating and evaluating ODRL documents as a policy decision point
  • OpenSDRM - digital object rights management solution based on open-source components and open standards
  • OpenIPMP - Open source DRM project utlising numerous standards
Get Involved Working Groups Profiles
Join the ODRL Interest mailing list to be notified of formal announcements.

Send comments and feedback on the ODRL specification to contactatodrl.net

How to Join the ODRL Supporters group.

See the ODRL-based Projects list.

View the DRM Pioneers list.

Previous ODRL International Workshops:

  • 2004 Vienna, Austria
  • 2005 Lisbon, Portugal
  • 2007 Koblenz, Germany
  • 2008 Poznan, Poland
  • 2009 Nancy, France

Previous ODRL Working Group Meetings:

Current Working Groups:

New ODRL Task Forces:

rdfa

A new Task Force to encode ODRL as RDFa is now under discussion.
microformats

A new Task Force to encode ODRL as Microformats is now under discussion.

Community members interested in new ODRL vocabularies and technical solutions are invited to form new Profile Working Groups.

Completed Working Groups:

 CC

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Open Mobile Alliance (OMA)

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arrow V2.1 DRM REL (Approved Enabler)

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