Digital Rights Management News

The latest round of the Trans-Pacific Partnership starts today in Lima, Peru. Embedded in the trade agreement is an IP chapter that, according to leaks , exports the worst of US copyright law -- DRM blocks, extended copyright terms, ISPs as copyright cops -- without even of the judicial and constitutional counterbalances that US activists have ... (more)

Recommendation of the EPUB3 standard / Study by researchers from Mainz University handed over to Neelie Kroes, EU Commissioner for the Digital Agenda There are no technical or functional reasons for Amazon and Apple to fence off their e-book worlds using proprietary e-book formats.

Thursdays the Patent Office publishes new pending patent applications . Both of today's Spotlight Applications concern aspects of digital rights management .

Encryption and Digital Rights Management Solution Embedded within Enterprise Infrastructure to Safeguard Information in Servers, File Shares, Call Center Conversations and Emails )--Encryptics, a provider of patented data privacy and protection services for businesses and government, has been selected by GILA LLC to protect vital customer data sent ... (more)

Providing multiple format content to various devices in real time is a feature many technology providers are striving for in a mobile world, and Limelight Orchestrate 2.0 has been released for doing just that.

Tuesdays the USPTO issues new patents . Both of today's Spotlight Patents concern aspects of digital rights management .

Encryptics, a provider of patented data privacy and protection services for businesses and government, today announced a major upgrade to its software-based data security portfolio.

Yesterday, Sense About Science held its annual lecture, given by author and activist Cory Doctorow .

San Jose, CA, May 13, 2013 -- Brainzsquare announced its release of SECUDRIVE Content Guard Server , a server-based copy protection solution into the market.

The " Unlocking Technology Act of 2013 ," proposed by Rep. Zoe Lofgren , provides that people can tinker with digital locks on software -- the digital rights management technology that prevents people from copying programs -- as long as they aren't doing so in order to infringe copyright.

On Friday, the World Wide Web Consortium published the first public draft of Encrypted Media Extensions .

THE WORLD WIDE WEB CONSORTIUM has released a first public working draft of its HTML Encrypted Media Extension standard amid ongoing controversy over embedding digital restrictions management into HTML.

Remember the battle over DRM? It's back with a vengeance. And this time the battleground isn't Napster or iTunes or the courts -- it's the emerging HTML5 standard.

Defense Distributed's goal is to evaporate the container described by the Second Amendment, making obtaining a firearm trivial enough that even trying to place restrictions on gun manufacturing becomes useless.

We submitted the following comment to the US Trade Rep today regarding the proposed United States-European Union trade agreement.

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Ars reports on an international treaty being negotiated that would relax restrictions on versions of books made to be more accessible to blind people.

Sentinel Licensing Development Kit has been honored with a 2013 CODiE award as the best digital rights management solution.

WASHINGTON, May 9 -- Rep. Zoe Lofgren, D-Calif. , issued the following news release: Reps.

A new bill introduced in Congress today aims to resolve the restrictions that complicate phone unlocking, and it's doing it the right way.