New Digital Rights Management software launched at Queen Mary
A new open source Interoperable Digital Rights Management platform has been launched which enables users to get content from any service provider and use it on any device. The new software developments were announced at the 17th general assembly of the international ‘Digital Media Project’ (DMP), which was hosted by Queen Mary, University of London’s Centre for Digital Music (C4DM), last week (23-25 January).
(Media-Newswire.com) - A new open source Interoperable Digital Rights Management platform has been launched which enables users to get content from any service provider and use it on any device.
The new software developments were announced at the 17th general assembly of the international ‘Digital Media Project’ ( DMP ), which was hosted by Queen Mary, University of London’s Centre for Digital Music ( C4DM ), last week ( 23-25 January ).
Dr Panos Kudumakis, Research Manager in the C4DM commented on the new software: “It is the right time for users and music aficionados to use this technology to set their rules on their content, self-exploit and generate money from their creativity in the multimedia world.”
The Centre for Digital Music ( C4DM ) will be able to exploit the new DMP platform by integrating its innovative technologies such as Soundbite, which allows users to search their music collection in terms of tempo, melody and timbre; and another programme, Sonic Visualiser, enables collaborative music creation, remixing and repurposing – whilst taking in consideration author’s rights, thanks to the DMP platform.
The DMP is an international not-for-profit organisation which focuses on Digital Rights Management in the media industry, and aims to promote the successful development, deployment and use of digital media.
Dr Kudumakis added: “Our goal is to consider the needs and rights of the creators, rights holders, and end users – allowing everyone to enjoy the benefits of digital media.”
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The 17th meeting of the DMP was held from Wednesday 23rd January to Friday 25th January 2008, at Queen Mary’s Mile End Campus.
At the meeting, the DMP approved a new version of its Interoperable Digital Rights Management ( DRM ) Platform ( IDP-3.1 ) including the Chillout® reference implementation released as Open Source Software under the Mozilla Public Licence V.1.1.
Siân Halkyard Communications Officer Queen Mary, University of London Tel: +44 ( 0 ) 20 7882 7454 email: s.halkyard@qmul.ac.uk
Notes to Editors: The Digital Media Project The Digital Media Project was chartered as a non-profit organisation on 1 December 2003 in Geneva, Switzerland, continuing the visionary work of the Digital Media Manifesto. Its mission is to promote the successful development, deployment, and use of digital media, while safeguarding the rights of creators and rights holders to exploit their works, the wishes of end users to enjoy fully the benefits of digital media, and the interests of value-chain players providing products and services.
The DMP’s Board of Directors is: Marina Bosi ( MPEG LA, LLC, USA ), Leonardo Chiariglione ( CEDEO.net, Italy ), Marc Gauvin ( Sociedad Digital de Autores y Editores, Spain ), Jinwoo Hong ( Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, Korea ) and Tiejun Huang ( Peking University, China ).
The Centre for Digital Music ( C4DM ) The Centre for Digital Music ( C4DM ) at Queen Mary, University of London is a world-leading multidisciplinary research group in the field of Music & Audio Technology. Since its founding members joined Queen Mary in 2001, the Centre has grown to become arguably the UK's leading Digital Music research group. With its broad range of skills and a strong focus on making innovation usable, the Centre for Digital Music is ideally placed to work with industry leaders in forging new business models for the music industry.
Queen Mary, University of London
Queen Mary, University of London is one of the UK's leading research-focused higher education institutions with some 13,000 undergraduate and postgraduate students.
Amongst the largest of the colleges of the University of London, Queen Mary’s 2,800 staff deliver world class degree programmes and research across 21 academic departments and institutes, within three sectors: Science and Engineering; Humanities, Social Sciences and Laws; and the School of Medicine and Dentistry.
Over 80 per cent of Queen Mary’s research staff work in departments where research is of international or national excellence ( RAE 2001 ).
The College has a strong international reputation, with around 20 per cent of students coming from over 100 countries.
Queen Mary has an annual turnover of £200 million, research income worth £43 million, and generates employment and output worth £500 million to the UK economy each year.
Queen Mary, as a member of the 1994 Group of research-focused universities, has made a strategic commitment to the highest quality of research, but also to the best possible educational, cultural and social experience for its students. The College is unique amongst London's universities in being able to offer a completely integrated residential campus, with a 2,000-bed award-winning Student Village on its Mile End campus.
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