Frequently Asked Questions

Is Distributed Intellectual Property Rights (DIPR) a rights management system?

Strictly speaking the DIPR system is an identification system although it does extend one right to a properly identified product in the DIPR environment; this is the right to exist in this environment and exist in any number of copies.

Why package intellectual property with identifiers?

All information is packaged in some sort of box! The human DNA is packaged in a complicated cell which in turn is packaged in a hugely complex body. A simple text document is packaged in a file to give it some structure so that a computer system can use it. Further packaging is added if the text file is to be transferred over a network, etc. Some packaging is both essential and useful to the survival of the information.

To reiterate the Distributed Intellectual Property Rights premises: For human society to trade informational products, which take human effort to produce, these products HAVE to be ‘packaged’ with identifiers. The advantage of the DIPR system over other ‘rights management’ systems is that the package does not identify any personal user data and the package can become transparent to the user once it has initially been put in place.

The importance and transparency of the DIPR packaging becomes apparent when you consider that virtual products can exist in the DIPR environment. Once a DIPR product has been created it becomes truly virtual; no complete PRD or manifestation of that PRD identified product need exist but it is always available to the user.