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Clay Shirky has an article on Hailstorm up at: http://www.openp2p.com/pub/a/p2p/2001/05/30/hailstorm.html Shirky raises copyright and control as a central issue in Microsoft's Hailstorm strategy: >This is the most audacious aspect of HailStorm, and the core of the >describe-and-defend strategy. Microsoft wants to create a schema which >describes all possible user transactions, and then copyright that >schema, in order to create and manage the ontology of life on the >Internet. In HailStorm as it was described, all entities, methods, and >transactions will be defined and mediated by Microsoft or >Microsoft-licensed developers, with Microsoft acting as a kind of >arbiter of descriptions of electronic reality: We've had discussions of whether copyrighting a schema has any implications for control. I can definitely see limitations on derived works, which strikes me as unfortunate, but I'd really like to have a clearer explanation from someone as to how intellectual property and XML interact in the legal world...
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