ContentGuard is committed to
the vision of a worldwide digital rights language standard as a critical building
block for the growth of the digital content industry. To that end the company
promotes the adoption of standard rights expression language by several standards organizations for the deployment of DRM in
all types of digital content or services. The company actively participates in
the open and public processes for the development of these standards and contributes
valuable know-how about DRM systems development as well as interoperability requirements,
which are critical prerequisites for the growth of the digital content market.
Below is a sampling of the standards bodies ContentGuard is involved in:
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The
Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG)
is a working group of ISO/IEC, JTC 1 / SC 29 / WG 11
in charge of the development of international standards for
compression, decompression, processing, and coded representation
of moving pictures, audio and their combination. ContentGuard's
XrML architecture has been selected as a basis for the development
of the MPEG-21
Rights Expression Language (REL). ContentGuard is very
active in this work. The MPEG REL is an ISO/IEC International Standard officially known as 'ISO/IEC 2100-5:2004' and is available from ISO.
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The Content Reference Forum (CRF) is a
standards group of leading
technology and content-related companies chartered to develop
a universal way to distribute digital content across various
mediums and geographies. Its goal is to create a dynamic marketplace
where consumers can get and share the right content for their
platform and preferences, and where underlying commercial agreements
and rights are respected. CRF promotes the adoption of specifications
and design guidelines, leveraging existing standards, to
create an open framework for interoperable, platform- and business
model-independent digital content distribution. ContentGuard
is a founding member of the CRF and is actively involved in
the development of the CRF specs. |
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The Open
eBook Forum (OeBF) is the leading international
trade and standards organization for the eBook industry. ContentGuard
is a member of the Rights & Rules and IP Policy working groups.
The Rights and Rules Working Group (RRWG) has selected XrML
as a foundation rights expression language for developing
detailed material in its Rights Grammar specification. The
working group has also established a formal liason with MPEG-21.
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The TV-Anytime
Forum is an association of organizations which seeks to
develop specifications to enable audio-visual and other services
based on mass-market high volume digital storage in consumer
platforms. XrML is under consideration as a standard rights
expression language by their Rights Management and Protection
working group. The Rights Management and Protection Information
subgroup has developed tvax, an XrML extension for TV-Anytime.
TV-Anytime Forum issued a Call for Contributions in April
2002 for its Phase Two activities. Three distinct areas of
enhancements have been identified for Phase Two: New Content
Types, Targeting, and Redistribution. ContentGuard personnel
contribute to the Rights Management and Protection working
group.
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The Society
of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMTPE)
is the leading technical society for the motion imaging industry.
ContentGuard is actively engaging the Digital Cinema Technology
Committee of this organization.
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The Web
Services Interoperability Organization (WS-I) is
an open, industry organization chartered to promote Web services
interoperability across platforms, operating systems, and
programming languages. ContentGuard is a member & will support
initiatives to address Web Services security.
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The Internet
Streaming Media Alliance (ISMA) is a non-profit
corporation formed to provide a forum for the creation of
specification(s) that define an interoperable implementation
for streaming rich media (video, audio and associated data)
over Internet Protocol (IP) networks. ContentGuard supports
this alliance of streaming media innovators and will continue
to be actively involved in the development of rights language
requirements and to contribute specific domain knowledge about
DRM interoperability.
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