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Many things
called “rights” – at CDL, we decided to concentrate on Copyright; felt that
in today’s environment and with current law, recording of data to support
copyright analysis was key. Also, other working taking place around license
metadata.
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“Rights” –Wesley N. Hohfeld
(1919) Fundamental Legal Conceptions
as Applied in Judicial Reasoning
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1.Duty (P duty Q not X)
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2.Negative duty as well as positive requirement (rights to
active assistance as well as negative freedom
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3.Ability of power (power of individual to alter existing
legal arrangements
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4.An immunity from legal change (not only rihgt as power but
also lack of power)
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Ronald
Dworkin—(1984) Rights as Trumps
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