From: Jimmy Wales Evan Prodromou wrote:

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The main idea is to store as much rights information as possible in machine-readable format. For me, I want to be able to put automatically-generated copyright notices on the printable version

of

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a page.

Just as a point of reference, machine-readable licensing is a big BIG deal to Larry Lessig. He goes on about it every time I talk to him.

I'm not sure I see his point, but I also don't see any harm in it.

It all has to with believing that the future will be one of DRM.