ACAP to simplify image rights communication, management
ACAP, the new, global, non-proprietary, machine-readable protocol that enables publishers to control how their online content is reused, is to adopt semantics of the Picture Licensing Universal System (PLUS). ACAP has previously concentrated on text-based web resources, and its adoption of PLUS semantics is part of a planned extension to meet publisher requirements to communicate more precise terms for use of photographic and other media resources by web crawlers.
The PLUS standards aim to simplify and facilitate the communication and management of image rights, providing for increased automation and machine readable image licenses.
ACAP will use the PLUS License Data Format and PLUS Media Matrix standards to supplement the existing ACAP vocabulary for communicating licence-related information in a machine-readable form to web crawlers and other automated devices that use web content.
According to project director Mark Bide, “PLUS is a perfect fit for ACAP. We have said from the start that ACAP is not about re-inventing the wheel but about filling in the missing pieces of jigsaw to allow all content providers to express, in a machine-readable way, how they wish their content, whether that be pictures, music, film or the written word, to be re-used in the online environment.”
For more information, go to
www.the-acap.org.
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