Copyright and Technology

White papers, presentations and other documents of interest to Copyright and Technology readers. To obtain these, please fill out the form below to receive documents by email.

• Presentation: Rights Expression Languages (Or, Copyright Law Rumbles with Technology in a Dark Alley), January 2019. Given as part of Computational Law course at MIT, Cambridge, MA.

• E-book Watermarking: Technology and Applications, May 2018.  Whitepaper commissioned by Icontact, creators of BooXstream.

• Watermarking Technology and Blockchains in the Music Industry, April 2017.  Whitepaper commissioned by Digimarc.

• Strategies for Secure OTT Video in a Multiscreen World, March 2015.  Whitepaper commissioned by Irdeto.

• Content Security Requirements for Multi-Screen Video Services, December 2011.  Whitepaper commissioned by Verimatrix.

• The New Technologies for Pay TV Content Security, August 2011.  Whitepaper commissioned by Irdeto.

• Presentation: Policy Challenges around Digital Copyright, February 2010. Given at Association of American Publishers’ Professional and Scholarly Publishing Conference, February 2010, Washington, DC.

• Presentation: The Trajectory of DRM Technologies: Past, Present, and Future, September 2009. Keynote at ODRL/Virtual Goods Workshop, September 2009, Nancy, France.

• Presentation: How DRM Technologies Impact Consumers, March 2009. Given at Federal Trade Commission Town Hall on Digital Rights Management, March 2009, Seattle, Washington.

• Enterprise Rights Management: Business Imperatives and Implementation Readiness, August 2008.  Market research study sponsored by Fasoo, GigaTrust, EMC, and Microsoft.

• Digital Magazine and Newspaper Editions: Growth, Trends, and Best Practices, May 2008.  Market research study sponsored by Advanced Publishing, Olive Software, Nstein, Nxtbook, Texterity, YUDU, and Zinio.

• Content Identification Technologies: Business Benefits for Content Owners, April 2008.  White paper presented at NAB 2008, Las Vegas.

• Presentation: Automating Notice and Takedown, March 2007.  Given at Progress and Freedom Foundation seminar, What Goes Up Must Come Down: Copyright and Process in the Age of User-posted Content, Washington, DC.

Audio Presentations

• Rights Technologies and Online Content Business Models, November 2010 (audio with slides).  Part of Henry Stewart Talks series on Digital Asset Management.

• Presentation to the National Academies’ workshop on the Impact of Copyright Policy on Innovation in the Digital Era, Washington, DC, October 2010 (Audio: scroll down to “Rosenblatt” and click “Audio” to download MP3).

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