OWS-4 Geo Digital Rights Management (GeoDRM)

GeoDRM or Geospatial Digital Rights Management is defined in the OGC GeoDRM Reference Model as the packaging, distributing, controlling and tracking of geospatial content based on rights and licensing information. More generally it can be taken to cover a broad spectrum of capabilities and underlying technologies supporting description, identification, trading, protecting monitoring and tracking of all forms of rights usages for both tangible and intangible (electronic) assets, including the management of rights-holders relationships. For the purpose of the OWS-4 initiative, GeoDRM consists of standards, technologies, and practices which enable interoperable trading of geospatial content to be implemented on top of OWS services. GeoDRM does not include per se, but does require and connect to capabilities for establishing trust between actors in OWS services interactions.