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Next-step task areas for IVP collaborators

Here are six task areas for Information Valet Project collaborators, and bullet-point tasks within each. (Collaborators please add to/edit this list by using the wiki edit function. Click on the tab at the top of page and remember to click on "Save page" tab when done editing)

Legal/corporate form/governance

• Five case studies – Bluetooth, OPA, NCN, formed/benefits
• Creating entity to own patents/etc. licensing, or just series of relationships is there an entity or a series of relationships; is there IP that needs to reside someplace or is it contractual trust relationships among content aggregators; maybe both.
• Payment guarantees and liabilities – who bears
• Profit nonprofit
• Rules about use of information collected in service; what if companies go out of business; is information asset of company; better to do it the way money is treated. Money always belongs to individual.
• Literature review on ownership of identify; opportunities and liabilities of being “custodians” of peoples’ personal information. Is there a core of information that can’t be traded/sold?
• Law firm representing custodians of personal information. Legal discussion as detailed as technical; hard to bridge two worlds. (39 states security notice breach laws) IDEA.
• Should this be trade association to mitigate all the legal/liability issues?

Marketing

• What are the terms – name of agent (news organization) vs. name of the operating service.
• Define what the rewards system is for the users
• Position of news organization as a information repository handler
• Concept needs a marketing requirements document

Advertising

• How does IVP facilitate role of advertising by moving money around ecosystem
• Might just be revenue generation – is “advertising” too limiting term?
• Revenue generation through advertising or other business models
• How to get money in hands of people who create content other than subscriptions

Privacy/demographics/identity

• Use/ownership/custodianship of privacy information
• What will people exchange for their privacy?

Business models/financial

• Credit/risk issues

Technology/IP rights

• Are there any patent issues?