Date: Sep. 8, 2000
Link: http://www.iprsystems.com.au/ODRL/
Source Author or Organization: Renato Iannella, IPR Systems Pty Ltd

Open Digital Rights Language acts as a compliment to existing rights management standards by providing the semantics to express rights for digital assets (such as e-books, music, or software). ODRL is part of a wider initiative to develop standards for Open Digital Rights Management (ODRM) on the Web.