Author Archives: Bill Rosenblatt

DivX Approved by More Film Studios

Paramount approves the format; three down, three to go.

AP Pushes Ahead with Rights Microformat

A rights expression language scheme with ties to Creative Commons will be used for AP news content.

Civolution Acquires Watermarking Business from Thomson

Consolidation in the digital watermarking space.

Barnes & Noble Launches E-Book Store

The most serious challenge to Amazon’s Kindle/Mobipocket strategy comes from the combination of B&N and Fictionwise.

Mobile Music: The Future Downloads Here

Why streaming from the cloud may not be such a great idea after all.

RIAA Releases Watermarking Payload Specification

A proposed standard that should hasten the adoption of digital watermarking in the music industry.

Now Available: The DRM Reference Table

A new reference table with information about over three dozen current DRM, content protection, and conditional access technologies.

Pirate Bay Acquirers Attempt to Go Legit

Hope springs eternal in the pirate’s breast.

Intertrust Launches OMA DRM Trust Services

Intertrust expands its Marlin trust management services to OMA DRM 2.0, thereby promoting interoperability between the two technologies.

Geospatial Data: A New Old Data Type for DRM?

Geospatial data spans government, corporate, and consumer domains. How can or should DRM apply there?