• Gathering feedback on the RightsML implementation examples and ODRL in JSON spec via the public RightsML Forum and the IPTC-members-only RightsML email list.
• Update the RightsML standard to match ODRL 2.1(the latest version)

• How does RightsML work with video?

Recent Achievements

• We documented the RightsML Processing Model
• We developed libraries for generating RightsML and ODRL licenses in Python and Javascript
• ODRL version 2.1 has been released
• The W3C Permissions and Obligations Expressions Working Group discussions have begun

• We've updated the combined RightsML implementation examples (formerly known as the "sophisticated" examples)
• We presented the rights in photo metadata requirements to the IPTC Photo Metadata group, for inclusion in the annual IPTC Photo Metadata update
• We released the simple examples
• We worked with legal experts to suggest revisions to the ODRL action vocabulary, which were incorporated by the W3C ODRL CG
• The Spring 2016 face-to-face meeting of the IPTC included the Rights Working Group
• We looked at creating a right evaluation engine based on licensed

• In March 2016, W3C chartered Permissions and Obligations Expressions Working Group
• We released the experimental phase
• In March 2013, the IPTC held a one day conference: "Machine Readable Rights and the News Industry" (summary, presentations)
  
• Initial development of the RightsML standard and creation of the RightsML Dev website
• Selection of ODRL as the foundation of IPTC's rights expression work