Managing Rights Management

MPAA and Sprint DRM Issued Patents

On Tuesdays the USPTO issues new patents. Both of today's Spotlight Patents address digital rights management. Assigned to the MPAA, the first patent concerns an adaptive digital rights management system for plural device domains. Assigned to Sprint, the second patent concerns wireless access provider intermediation to facilliate digital rights management... Read more →

Two Watermarking Patent Applications From Thomson

On Thursdays the USPTO publishes new pending patent applications. Assigned to Thomson Licensing, both of today's Spotlight Applications deal with aspects of watermarking. The first application addresses techniques for watermarking films. The second application addresses techniques for digital watermarking. 20090079809, "System and Method for Film Watermarking," assigned to Thomson Licensing,... Read more →

Sony and Oracle DRM Patents

On Tuesdays the USPTO issues new patents. Both of today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of DRM. Assigned to Sony, the first patent addresses techniques for information processing and recording. Assigned to SealedMedia (Oracle), the second patent addresses aspects of digital rights management. 7,509,576, "Information processing system and method, program, and... Read more →

Podcast With Airzip CEO Gary Clueit - Enterprise Rights Management

I spoke recently with Gary Clueit, CEO of AirZip, the provider of FileSECURE Enterprise Rights Management software. Today's podcast is an edited version of our recent conversation. The topics covered include differences between China and the United States in business culture, information security, and ERM. A detailed time-index topic list... Read more →

Digital Fingerprinting Patent Applications

On Thursdays the USPTO publishes new pending patent applications. Booth of today's Spotlight Applications address aspects of digital fingerprinting. The first application discloses techniques for advertisement detection and substitution. The second application discloses techniques for restoring program information for clips of broadcast programs shared online, no assignee given. 20090077580, "Method... Read more →

LG Copy Protection and Nagravision Conditional Access Issued Patents

On Tuesdays the USPTO issues new patents. Today's Spotlight Patents concern techniques for copy protection and for conditional access. Assigned to LG Electronics (KR), the first patent concerns a copy protection method for digital media. Assigned to Nagravision (CH), the second patent concerns a process for managing the handling of... Read more →

Philips and Digimarc Watermarking Patent Applications

On Thursdays the USPTO publishes new patent applications. Today's Spotlight Applications address aspects of digital watermarking. Assigned to Philips, the first application discloses a renewable watermark for theatrical content. Assigned to Digimac, the second application discloses techniques for the authentication of physical and electronic media objects using digital watermarks. 20090070588,... Read more →

SAP and Digimarc Watermarking Patents

On Tuesdays the USPTO issues new patents. Both of today's Spotlight Patents entail the use of digital watermarking. Assigned to SAP (DE), the first patent concerns techniques for electronic signatures. Assigned to Digimarc, the second patent concerns the use of digital watermarking with toy and game applications. 7,502,934, "Electronic signatures,"... Read more →

DRM: Control or Opportunity? The Views of Leading Trade Associations

More than 800 comments have been submitted to the FTC in advance of hearings on the impact of DRM on consumers. Four of the major copyright industry trade associations have jointly submitted useful comments. The four are the the Association of American Publishers ("AAP'),the Entertainment Sofware Association ("'ESA"), Motion Picture... Read more →

How To DRM? Byteshield's FTC Submission

ByteShield, the San Francisco-based software and game DRM company, submitted comments in advance of the FTC's hearing on DRM and the consumer. Submitted by CEO Jan Samzelius, the document provides a terrific list of DRM features, functions, and capabilities that would probably delight game and software publishers and provide a... Read more →