New pending patent applications are published by the USPTO on Thursdays. Both of today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital rights management. Assigned to Tencent (CN), the first application discloses techniques for a video detection method, server and storage medium. Assigned to Waldo Photos, the second application discloses techniques for facilitating the sale of digital images while preventing theft thereof.
Continue reading "Tencent and Waldo Photos DRM Patent Applications" »
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New pending patent applications are published by the USPTO on Thursdays. Today's Spotlight Applications continue our theme of blockchain (distributed ledger, smart contracts) and digital rights management broadly construed. Assigned to Huawei (CN), the first application discloses techniques for copyright management. Assigned to Smart Security Systems, the second application discloses techniques for protecting enterprise communications and data.
Continue reading "Huawei and Smart Security Systems Blockchain and DRM Patent Applications" »
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New patents are issued by the USPTO on Tuesdays. Both of today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital rights management. Assigned to Hitachi, the first of today's patents addresses a digital rights management system that includes a storage module that stores a usage right for digital content in a tamper-resistant portion of a memory. Assigned to Toshiba, the second patent addresses an electronic device and method of transmitting a content item.
Continue reading "HGST Techologies and Toshiba DRM Patents" »
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New patents are issued by the USPTO on Tuesdays. Both of this week's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital rights management. Assigned to Sony, the first patent addresses techniques for statutory license restricted digital media playback on portable devices. Assigned to TAI Technologies, the second patent addresses techniques for targeted messaging, workflow management, and digital rights management for geofeeds.
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New patents are issued by the USPTO on Tuesdays. Both of today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital rights management. Assigned to IBM, the first patent addresses techniques for detecting usage of copyrighted video content using object recognition. Assigned to Omniphone (GB), the second patent addresses techniques for enabling digital music content to be downloaded to and used on a portable wireless computing device.
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We continue the theme of blockchain (block chain, distributed ledger) and digital rights management broadly construed. Assigned to Intel, the first Spotlight Application discloses techniques for blockchain-based shadow images to facilitate copyright protection of digital content. Assigned to Elixsys, the second application discloses techniques for using smart contracts to control the trade, supply, manufacture, and distribution of commodities.
Continue reading "Intel and Elixsys Blockchain and DRM Patent Applications" »
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New patents are issued by the USPTO on Tuesdays. Both of today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital rights management. Assigned to IBM, the first patent addresses techniques for copyright infringement prevention. Assigned to EMC, the second patent addresses techniques for secure search.
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New pending patent applications are published by the USPTO on Thursdays. Both of today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital rights management. Assigned to Disney, the first application discloses techniques for a cloud-based automated content curation system. Assigned to the inventor, Bryan Joseph Wrzesinski, the second application discloses techniques for copyright content monetization..
Continue reading "Disney and Wrzesinski DRM Patent Applications" »
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New patents are issued by the USPTO on Tuesdays. This week's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital rights management. Assigned to Wire I.P, (IE), the first patent addresses techniques for controlling access to copyrighted data. Assigned to Concurrent Computer Corporation, the second patent addresses techniques for hierarchical key management for digital rights management.
Continue reading "Wire IP and Concurrent Computer DRM Patents" »
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New pending patent applications are published by the USPTO on Thursdays. Both of today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital rights management. Assigned to Pulselocker, the first application discloses techniques for limiting access to data by process or computer function with stateless encryption. Assigned to IBM, the second application discloses techniques for detecting usage of copyrighted video content using object recognition.
Continue reading "Pulselocker and IBM DRM Patent Applications" »
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New patents are issued by the USPTO on Tuesdays. Both of today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital rights management. Assigned to Intel, the first of today's patents addresses technologies for supporting multiple digital rights management protocols on a client device. Assigned to CSC Holdings, the second patent addresses techniques for a flexible video-on-demand viewing period that is varied depending on whether the customer has completed viewing the entire program, allowing the viewing period to be extended if the customer has not completed viewing the entire program.
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New patents are issued by the USPTO on Tuesdays. Both of this week's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital rights management. Assigned to Microsoft, the first patent addresses techniques for social network media sharing with client library. Assigned to Toshiba (JP), the second patent addresses a content transmitter that is configured to output a content item including first data and second data to one transmission path, by applying a first copyright protection system to copyright protection of the first data and applying a second copyright protection system to copyright protection of the second data.
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New pending patent applications are published on Thursdays. Both of today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital rights management. Assigned to Accenture, the first application discloses techniques for 3-D printing protected by digital rights management. Assigned to LVRT, the second application discloses techniques for a database system for dynamic retrieval of nested data items [including copyrighted items and derivatives].
Continue reading "Accenture and LVRT DRM Patent Applications" »
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New patents are issued by the USPTO on Tuesdays. Both of today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital rights management. Assigned to Intel, the first patent addresses technologies for digital rights management of 3D printable models. Assigned to Broadcom, the second patent addresses techniques for social media video encoding.
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New patents are issued by the USPTO on Tuesdays. Both of today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital rights management. Assigned to Google, the first patent addresses techniques for identify one or more copyright-infringing time slices in a plurality of audio sequential time slices. Assigned to Cellco Partnership, the second patent addresses techniques for secure element-centric digital rights management.
Continue reading "Google and Cellco Partnership DRM Patents" »
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New pending patent applications are published on Thursdays by the USPTO. Both of this week's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital rights management. Assigned to Alibaba, the first application discloses techniques for implementing digital rights management. Assigned to Toshiba, the second application discloses techniques for transmitting content items with copyright protection.
Continue reading "Alibaba and Toshiba DRM Patent Applications" »
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New patents are issued by the USPTO on Tuesdays. Both of today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital rights management. Assigned to Infosys (IN), the first patent addresses techniques for a portable digital vault and lending of same. Assigned to Ericsson, the second patent addresses a device using secure processing zone to establish trust for digital rights management.
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New pending patent applications are published on Thursdays. Both of today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital rights management. Assigned to Adrea, the first application discloses an electronic book security and copyright protection system. Assigned to Microsoft, the second application discloses techniques for media decoding control with hardware-protected digital rights management.
Continue reading "Adrea and Microsoft DRM Patent Applications" »
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New pending patent applications are published by the USPTO on Thursdays. Both of today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital rights management. Assigned to Google, the first application discloses a secure challenge system for verifying access rights to media content. Assigned to Panasonic (JP), the second application discloses a content distribution method which allows a source device to safely distribute copyrighted content.
Continue reading "Google and Panasonic DRM Patent Applications" »
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Thursdays the USPTO publishes new pending patent applications. Both of this posting's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital rights management. Assigned to Arris Enterprises, the first application discloses techniques for fault-tolerant configuration and orchestration among multiple DRM systems. Assigned to Thomson (FR), the second application discloses techniques for bonding contents on separate storage media by creating a virtual file system.
Continue reading "Arris Enterprises and Thomson DRM Patent Applications" »
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New patents are issued by the USPTO on Tuesdays. Both of today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital rights management. Assigned to Intertrust, the first patent addresses techniques using cryptography to protect secure computing environments. Assigned to Toshiba, the second patent addresses techniques for transmitting content items.
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New pending patent applications are published on Thursdays by the USPTO. Both of today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital rights management. Assigned to the Precisionist Fund, the first application discloses an electronic media distribution system with DRM. Assigned to Toshiba, the second application discloses a semiconductor device with copyright protection function,.
Continue reading "Precisionist Fund and Toshiba DRM Patent Applications" »
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Thursdays the PTO publishes new pending patent applications. Both of the Spotlight Applications presented address aspects of digital rights management. Assigned to IP Squared Technologies, the first application discloses techniques for managing data assets associated with peer-to-peer networks. Assigned to Adobe, the second application discloses a digital rights management retrieval system.
Continue reading "IP Squared and Adobe DRM Patent Applications" »
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The PTO publishes new pending patent applications on Thursdays. Both of today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital rights management. Assigned to CFPH, LLC, the first of today's applications discloses techniques for electronic file use and management. Assigned to United Video Properties, the second application discloses techniques for enabling an automatic license for mashups.
Continue reading "CFPH and United Video DRM Patent Applications" »
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The PTO issues new patents on Tuesdays.Both of this week's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital rights management. Assigned to Toshiba (JP), the first patent addresses techniques for a content delivery service. Assigned to LG Electronics, the second patent addresses techniques for sharing rights object in digital rights management.
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Thursdays the Patent Office publishes new pending patent applications. Both of today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital rights management and both are assigned to Sony. The first application discloses DRM techniques for live streaming based on trusted relationships. The second application discloses a security module that is provided in a data recording medium, data to be written to the data recording medium is encrypted with an content key different from one data to another, and the content key is safely stored in the security module.
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Tuesdays the patent office issues new patents. Both of today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital rights management. Assigned to Audible Magic, the first of today's patents concerns techniques for copyright detection and protection. Assigned to Digital Keystone, the second patent concerns techniques for conditional access and digital rights management.
Continue reading "Audible Magic and Digital Keystone DRM Patents" »
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Thursdays the Patent Office publishes new pending patent applications. Both of today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital rights management. Assigned to Samsung (KR), the first application discloses techniques for using contents information in digital rights management. Assigned to eBay, the second application discloses techniques for sending and receiving digital goods through a service provider.
Continue reading "Samsung and eBay DRM Patent Applications" »
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On Tuesdays the USPTO issues new patents. Both of today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital rights management. Assigned to SAP (DE), the first patent addresses techniques for a secure distributed item-level discovery service using secret sharing. Assigned to NTT DoCoMo (JP), the second patent addresses a content transmission system and techniques for protecting copyrighted works.
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On Tuesdays the USPTO issues new patents.Today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital rights management and copyright protection. Assigned to Samsung (KR), the first of today's patents concerns techniques for utilizing DVD content through a home network that address the concerns of copyright holders. Assigned to CFPH, LLC, the second patent concerns techniques for electronic file use and management without violating copyrights that copyright holders have in the files.
Continue reading "Samsung and CFPH Copyright-related Patents" »
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On Tuesdays the USPTO isues new patents. Both of today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital rights management. Assigned to Adobe, the first patent addresses techniques for locally caching digital rights information. Assigned to Hitachi (JP), the second patent addresses techniques for an interface that can prevent video signals from being copied easily and which uses a luminance/color difference signal transmission scheme with an excellent harmony with a television circuit.
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On Tuesdays the USPTO issues new patents. Both of today's Spotlight Patents address aspects of digital rights management. Assigned to HP, the first patent concerns techniques for determining whether a digital rights management system's native license is valid. Assigned to Sunplus Technology (TW), the second patent concerns a proprietary portable audio player system for protecting digital content copyrights.
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On Thursdays the USPTO publishes new pending patent applications. Both of today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital rights management. Assigned to Digital Chocolate, the first application discloses networked computer game systems and methods with social network functions. The second application discloses techniques for determining copyright infringement and collecting royalties," no assignee given.
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On Thursdays the USPTO publishes new pending patent applications. Both of today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital rights management. Assigned to Ebyline, the first applicaiton discloses an online marketplace portal for content publishers and content creators. Assigned to Ia Ia media, the second application discloses a network based digital rights management system.
Continue reading "Ebyline and Ia Ia media DRM Patent Applications" »
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On Tuesdays the USPTO issues new patents. Both of today's Spotlight Patents concerns aspects of digital rights management. Assigned to Sprint Communications, the first of today's patents addresses digital rights management negotiation for streaming media over a network. Assigned to Panasonic, the second patent addresses systems and methods for deleting a content so as to be restorable in the future while protecting a copyright of the content.
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On Thursdays the USPTO publishes new pending patent applications. Both of today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital rights management. Assigned to Microsoft, the first application discloses techniques for controlling access to resources by hosted entities. Assigned to LG Electronics, the second application discloses techniques for controlling a mobile terminal.
Continue reading "Microsoft and LG DRM Patent Applications" »
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On Tuesdays the USPTO issues new patents. Today's Spotlight Patents address aspects of digital rights management. Assigned to Sony Ericsson, the first patent concerns techniques for multimedia distribution and/or playing using separate resolution-enhancing supplemental data. Assigned to Yamaha, the second patent concerns techniques based on copyright for inhibiting music recording.
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On Tuesdays the USPTO issues new patents. Both of today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of Digital Rights Management. Assigned to Sony, the first patent in part addresses techniques for protecting copyrighted materials on a home network. Assigned to Qurio Holdings, the second patent addresses techniques for synchronizing multiple playback device timing utilizing DRM encoding.
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On Tuesdays the USPTO issues new patents. Both of today's Spotlight Patents address aspects of digital rights management and both are assigned to Sony. The first patent concerns display devices and copy protection technologies. The second patent concerns a security module provided in a data recording medium.
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On Thursdays the USPTO publishes new pending patent applications. Both of today's Spotlight Applications address aspects of DRM. Assigned to Sandisk, the first application discloses techniques for the protection of copyrighted digital content. The second application discloses techniques for processing forward- locked DRM contents, and portable device adapted thereto.
Continue reading "Sandisk and Samsung DRM Patent Applications" »
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On Thursdays the USPTO publishes new pending patent applications. Today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of DRM and copyright protection. Assigned to Yahoo!, the first application discloses techniques for detecting the source of media content with application to business rules. Assigned to Microsoft, the second application discloses an educational content presentation system.
Continue reading "Yahoo and Microsoft DRM Patent Applications" »
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Back from vacation. On Tuesdays the USPTO issues new patents. Today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of DRM and copyright. Assigned to Yahoo!, the first patent concerns techniques for controllable track-skipping. Assigned to Panasonic (JP), the second patent concerns a rights management terminal, server apparatus and usage information collection system.
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As noted, the Federal Trade Commission will hold a public hearing in Seattle on DRM and it's impact on consumers. More than 800 submissions were received, including several from various vendors and trade associations. Among the latter submitting written comments from the Computer and Communications Industry Association (CCIA), a trade association dedicated to open markets, open systems, and open networks.
Among the arguments presented by the CCIA is that legal restrictions on reverse engineering under the Digital Millenium Copy Right Act (DMCA) are too severe and are being used by some vendors to place restrictions on competitors and to prevent interoperability.
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The hearing previously scheduled for today in the RIAA instigated law suit against Joel Tennebaum (Sony BMG Music Entertainment v. Tenenbaum) has been postponed to allow the RIAA to appeal Judge Nancy Gertner's decision to allow the hearing to be webcast.
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The Federal Trade Commission has now published a list of proposed topics for the DRM Town Hall to be held (and webcast) on March 25 in Seattle. The topic outline is both broad and detailed and worth reviewing.
The legal section proposes these topics:
Legal Landscape of DRM:
Continue reading "FTC Publishes Proposed Topic List For March DRM Town Hall Discussion" »
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The Boston Globe reports that Federal District Court Judge Nancy Gertner has agreed to allow next week's hearing in the RIAA's copyright suit against BU student Joel Tenenbaum to be televised. Tennebaum's legal defense team includes Harvard Law School professor Charles Nessom.
[Judge Gertner] dismissed as "specious" the recording industry's objections that publicity will influence potential jurors and said she has received assurances that the video stream will be unedited and available to all non-commercial users.
Gertner also said streaming court proceedings online will also serve the recording industry's stated objective of discouraging people from sharing music online.
The video will be streamed from the website of Harvard's Berkmen Center for Internet and Society. The hearing is scheduled for Thursday, January 22nd.
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On Thursdays the USPTO publishes new pending patent applications. Both of today's Spotlight applications address various aspects of DRM and copyright protection in mobile contexts. Assigned to NetBarrage (IL), the first application discloses a Peer to Peer file sharing mobile system with copyright protection. Assigned to Samsung, the second application discloses techniques for managing digital rights management contents in portable terminal.
Continue reading "NetBarrage and Samsung DRM Patent Applications" »
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CNet reports that a hearing regarding the RIAA initiated copyright infringement suit in Rhode Island federal court against Joel Tenenbaum has been postponed until January 6. As reported here and elsewhere, Harvard professor Charles Nesson and Law School students have intervened in Massachusetts Federal Court to get the copyright law under which the RIAA brings suit declared unconstitutional.
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As noted earlier, Prof. Charles Nesson has filed a suit in Boston federal court alleging that the RIAA's copyright enforcement campaign against music downloaders is unconstitutional. Now Mass High Tech has an article by Nesson in which he explains his views.
The tension remains that our antiquated legal system has not caught up to the social reality of digital natives, a term my colleague John Palfrey coined to describe the generation that grew up immersed in digital technologies and for whom a life fully integrated with digital devices that are, by design, free and open is the norm. Surely, just because the laws of copyright have not yet fully addressed the ubiquity by which protected information is readily — and freely — available on the Internet, it does not make good law moot. But this case illustrates a civil sea change rooted in the transformative nature of technology, of code as law. Better understanding of how today’s generations interact with digital media will help us shape our regulatory and educational frameworks in a way that advances the public interest.
The business model of the music labels is broken and will not be fixed by the RIAA's overly aggressive litigation strategy.
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The AP reports that Harvard Law School professor Charles Nesson has filed a law suit in Boston federal court challenging on constitutional grounds the RIAA's aggressive legal tactics against individuals.
Nesson argues that the Digital Theft Deterrence and Copyright Damages Improvement Act of 1999 is unconstitutional because it effectively lets a private group — the Recording Industry Association of America, or RIAA — carry out civil enforcement of a criminal law. He also says the music industry group abused the legal process by brandishing the prospects of lengthy and costly lawsuits in an effort to intimidate people into settling cases out of court.
Nesson, the founder of Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet and Society, said in an interview that his goal is to "turn the courts away from allowing themselves to be used like a low-grade collection agency."
Yea.
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