Copyright Ontology
The Copyright Ontology is a contribution geared towards the development of copyright-aware Digital Rights Management (DRM) systems.
The Copyright ontology is the main contribution of the PhD thesis "A Semantic Web Approach to Digital Right Management", which documents it. The main parts of this PhD thesis devoted to the Copyright Ontology are the Conceptualisation and Implementation sections. The latter just sketches the implementation guidelines of an OWL implementation.
Currently, there is just a Copyright Ontology implementation, which is work in progress:
There is also a ongoing project to develop a Semantic Digital Rights Management System (SemDRMS) that makes use of the Copyright Ontology in order to implement DRM using Sematic Web tools.
More details
"DRM, from research to implementation" track, Smart University 2007
September 19-20, Sophia Antipolis, France
Title: "Enabling interoperable and rights-aware DRM using the SemanticWeb" 
Related Publications
NOTE: This site links to the draft versions of the papers. For final versions, please, contact the corresponding publisher.
A Semantic Web Approach to
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Controlled Natural Language rendering of Copyright Ontology licenses
García, R.; Gil, R.
8th International Workshop for Technical, Economic and Legal Aspects of Business Models for Virtual Goods, Virtual Goods'10,
30 September - 1 October 2010, Namur, Belgium
Namur University Press, pp. 61-76, 2010
ISBN 978-2-87037-682-9Content Value Chains Modelling using a Copyright Ontology
García, R.; Gil, R.
Information Systems, Vol. 35, No. 4, pp. 483-495. Elsevier, 2010
ISSN 0306-4379 / DOI: 10.1016/j.is.2008.12.001
García, R.; Gil, R.
García, R.; Pariente, T. García, R.; Gil, R.Copyright Licenses Reasoning using an OWL-DL Ontology
In Breuker, J.; Casanovas, P.; Klein, M.; Francesconi, E. (Eds.) Law, Ontologies and the Semantic Web
Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications, Vol. 188, pp. 145-162. IOS Press, 2009
ISBN 978-1-58603-942-4Copyright Management for the LUISA Semantic Learning Content Management System
1st World Summit on the Knowledge Society, WSKS'08
Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 5288, pp. 253-262. Springer, 2008
ISBN 978-3-540-87780-6Semantic Copyright Management for Internet-wide Knowledge Sharing and Reuse
Online Information Review, Vol. 32, No. 5, in press. Emerald, 2008
ISSN 1468-4527
A Web Ontology for Copyright Contracts Management
García, R.; Gil, R.
Special issue on "Contract Architectures and Languages".
International Journal of Electronic Commerce, Vol. 12, No. 4, pp. 103-117. M.E. Sharpe, 2008
ISSN 1086-4415
Promoting Music Sampling by Semantic Web-enhanced DRM tools
Springer, M.; García. R.
5th International Workshop for Technical, Economic and Legal Aspects of Business Models for Virtual Goods, Virtual Goods'07
Nova Science Publishers, 2007. In press
A Web Ontologies Framework for Digital Rights Management
García, R.; Gil, R. and Delgado, J.
Journal of Artificial Intelligence and Law, Vol. 15, No. 2, pp. 137-154. Springer-Verlag, 2007
ISSN 0924-8463
Semantic Digital Rights Management for Controlled P2P RDF Metadata Diffusion
García, R.; Tummarello, G.
2nd International Semantic Web Policy Workshop, SWPW'06
International Semantic Web Conference, Athens, USA, 2006
CEUR Workshop Proceedings, Vol. 207, pp. 102-109, 2006
ISSN 1613-0073
An OWL Copyright Ontology for Semantic Digital Rights Management
García, R.; Gil, R.
IFIP WG 2.12 & WG 12.4 International Workshop on Web Semantics, SWWS'06
Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 4278, pp. 1745-1754. Springer-Verlag, 2006
ISBN 3-540-48273-3
An Ontological Approach for the Management of Rights Data Dictionaries
García, R. and Delgado, J.
18th Annual Conference on Legal Knowledge and Information Systems, JURIX 2005
Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications, Vol. 134, IOS Press, 2005
ISBN 1-58603-576-2
Formalising ODRL Semantics using Web Ontologies
García, R.; Gil, R.; Gallego, I. and Delgado, J.
Open Digital Rights Language Workshop, ODRL 2005
An interoperable framework for IPR using web ontologies
Gil, R.; García, R. and Delgado, J.
Legal Ontologies and Artificial Intelligence Techniques, LOAIT 2005
IAAIL Workshop Series, pp. 135-148. Wolf Legal Publishers, 2005
ISBN 90-5850-504-9
