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Sunday, October 28, 2007 Research Notes: III. Bi-lateral Intellectual Property Management Systems theory is the proper foundation for the management of digital object exchanges. For example, a service may be seen as a type of exchange between systems. Services can then be defined within an ecosystem of interacting systems. What is needed is an infrastructure that is neutral and has properties that provide optimal transmission with provable security. These properties will serve many purposes, but perhaps none as valuable as the bi-lateral management of intellectual property. Bi-lateral management is between separate entities, and thus the underlying mechanism supporting this management system will reflect natural, and social, reality. The generation of substructural patterns, in data exchanges, can be seen to produce a means for “universal” _expression_ similar to the universal expressive power of human phonetics. With a small set of sounds, the spoken language can be used to express almost any type of human communication. Given any one of several methods, the generation of a small set of substructural patterns are expressed in the compression / encryption dictionaries (as seen in CoreTalk, Kravtek, Mark III, and other clean slate Internet system designs). The generation process itself involves the convolution over many instances of events that occur to systems interacting with other systems. Storing the results from convolution mechanisms produces a genealogy over symbol systems (seen in both the Mark III and CoreSystem proto-types). As in the genealogy that likely produces phonetic _expression_, similarity of parts over many instances is a key mechanism. Also, as in the genealogy of phonetic _expression_, the genealogy of these sets of substructural patterns can evolve to accommodate shifts in the intentionality of the communities involved. The development of generative information technology having genealogy has application to the scientific understanding of cell and gene _expression_. Rosetta net is an early example of how this might work. CoreSystem is an advanced example of how this might work, as is the Mark III developed by Richard Ballard’s group. A fixed framework such as the Zackman framework has a non-evolutionary set of generative capabilities. The evolution of the generative set, e.g., a substructure, and the generation of _expression_ are subject of many works, some of which we are familiar with. The generic mechanism is itself simple. A convolution is the mechanism by which particulars generate universals. The issue is that the nature of induction, the generation of meaning and the assignment of meaning to symbols sets, has some subtle qualities. How one treats these qualities ends up effecting the agility and usefulness of a service oriented environment. So again we reflect on the systems theory approach to a provision of a new infrastructure for service definition in the Internet. Service definition is then an orchestration of a generative process involving universals. The notion of convolution may be used to create an induction of symbol systems at three levels of organization, the middle being the event space of services. Systems theory can then be seen as a stratification theory (Prueitt). These three levels roughly correspond to human memory, awareness and anticipation. It is true that systems theory of this type is considered beyond the average person’s ability to understand; however, the behavior of a system properly based on a deep understanding of systems theory will function in a way that is familiar to any human. Thus the theoretical language needs not to be understood by the market. We only need to have products that do new kinds of things. Intellectual property management is often seen only as something that is properly the concern of the producers of entertainment media designed for mass markets. The generative encapsulated digital object (KravTek) provides a complete solution to the current set of problems for owners of mass distributed intellectual product such as movies or audio files. The way the solution is provided is through the use of a generative object that has a back-office banking system for micro-transactions (Brad Cox). The concept is called “SuperDistribution” and is described in Dr Cox’s book of the same name. However, there is another side to the intellectual property management concern. Individuals wish to be allowed to actually use the objects for which payment has occurred. Microsoft bundling acted against this concern by requiring the bundled purchase of many products even if one wanted only to use a few. We also see that a purchase of the right to listen to an audio file does not automatically mean that the file will play on the device of choice. A new generation of wireless high definition devices will require a common transmission standard. Such a standard means device independence. The need to control one’s intellectual property might also extend to whom the sender wishes to communicate by e-mail. E-mail can have the property that any attempt to read it by persons not authorized will result in the destruction of the e-mail. The control over one’s information space is even more interesting. In the current markets one has very little control over what kinds of information one may encounter. For example, the Internet is filled with objectionable materials as measured with any of a number of viewpoints. Consumers want selective attention to some things and not to others. For example, a scholar may wish to have a stream of objects with information about certain fields of study. We see this type of service being developed with the RSS feeds. The clean slate Internet will support point-to-point transmission of gEDOs (generative Encapsulated Digital Objects), and nothing else. These objects will each have a high degree of encryption and compression as well as shared substructural (encryption/compression) dictionaries. The shared dictionaries will be composed of sets of data patterns associated with iconic forms that are viewable by humans and to which humans can assign behavioral properties. The bi-lateral nature of protection for information generated by a single human, or an organization, may have vulnerabilities. This is a question that Peter Stephenson and Paul Prueitt have been working on for some time. The question is left open for now. However, legal protection exists that should overlay the clean slate Internet. Some discussions about how this protection might be provided will have to deal with the types of collective intelligence seen from organizations. There are some national security issues, as well as the issues related to the Constitutional protection of basic right to privacy and liberty. The paradigm that is coming is one where digital objects always have owners and owners always have an ability to control well defined and agreed on licenses. The concept of ownership is made simpler by treating all of the issues that come from the nature of agreements about rights.
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