Managing Rights Management

The Joys of Being Dyslexic

That's Bleep.com, not beep.com. Thanks to sunburntkamel for pointing ou the error in the just prior post, which has been corrected. Read more →

Roughing It Without DRM

NetImperative reports that London music shop Rough Trade Retail though a partnership with bleep.com will sell music from its web site without using DRM. Snippets: Stephen Godfroy of Rough Trade Retail, said: “Digital shoppers can expect unique Rough Trade Retail features and services that cater for both individuals and organisations... Read more →

Recently Issued Patents

The US Patent Office issues new patents on Tuesdays. Issued patents and published applications may be early indicators of the kinds of issues being addressed by inventors and/or the companies for whom they work. Both of today's patents deal with video streams. Assigned to Matsushita, the first patent addresses ways... Read more →

Avoco Secure Get's Thumbs Up

UK's Avoco Secure says in a press release that a new report issued from The Butler Group gives it's peer-to-peer DRM solution a thumbs up. Snippets: The Butler Group report states, ‘One of the strengths of [Avoco Secure] secure2trust [product] is in its architecture as a peer-to-peer product that does... Read more →

Recently Published Patent Applications

Every Thursday, the US Patent and Trademark Office publishes pending patent applications. Publication has no bearing on whether a patent will eventually be issued based on the application. Still, issued patents and published applications are often indicators of what people have been thinking about and the kinds of things that... Read more →

Studios Sue To Prevent DVD Regional Code Hacks

An article by Ken "Ceasar" Fisher on Ars Technica reports that several movie studios are suing Samsung for producing DVD players that enable circumvention of the regional player code. The RPC is used by the studios to support the release of a movie on DVD in different regions at different... Read more →

Fewer Rights Management Patents?

I haven't done a quantitative study, but I've had the impression over the past several months that patents dealing with rights management have been issued at a slower rate than in the past while at the same time there seems to be more patents dealing with watermarking issuing. It may... Read more →

Further on the Halderman Felton Paper

Yesterday I noted the terrific paper by Alexander Halderman and Ed Felton that provides an in-depth look at the technologies underlying the Sony-BMG rootkit fiasco. As with the fiasco itself, this paper is certain to gather substantial attention in the blogosphere. Here is a quasi- random selection of commentary that... Read more →

Summing Up The Rootkit Affair

Every so often I come across a paper that actually deserves the adjective "seminal" in the sense of "Highly influential in an original way; constituting or providing a basis for further development" (The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language). Such is the case with Lessons from the Sony CD... Read more →

Recently Published Patent Applications

Every Thursday, the US Patent and Trademark Office publishes pending patent applications. Publication has no bearing on whether a patent will eventually be issued based on the application. Still, issued patents and published applications are often indicators of what people have been thinking about and the kinds of things that... Read more →